بمناسبة يوم اغتيال دكتور مارتن لوثر كنغ ...صور تنشر لاول مرة عن اغتياله

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نشرت مجلة life.com الالكترونية صورا تنشر لاول مرة عن مكان اغتيال الدكتور مارتن لوثر كنغ داعية الحقوق المدنية الاسود الي تم اغتياله سنة 1968 في فندق صغير في مدينة ممفيس تينسي ، جاء نشر الصور بمناسبة يوم اغتيال دكتور مارتن لوثر كنغ الذي يصادف الرابع من ابريل



LIFE EXCLUSIVE! The Day MLK Died


In Martin Luther King's Room at the Lorraine Motel
Stunned, silent members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Dr. King's room, including Andrew Young (far left, under table lamp) and the civil rights leader and King's colleague, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, seated in the middle on the far bed. "I was very discreet. I shot just enough to document what was going on. I didn't want to make a nuisance of myself. And right there, almost in the center of the picture, in the mirror you can see the reflection of me taking the picture. It's very somber, and there I am with a flash camera. So I took a couple of pictures and just kind of backed off."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968





Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Briefcase, Room 306, the Lorraine Motel
King's neatly packed, monogrammed briefcase in his room at the Lorraine. "That is Dr. King's briefcase, just as it was. His brush. His pajamas. That's a can of shaving cream there on top. And you can see his book, 'Strength to Love,' peeping from the pocket."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968





Where the Assassin Stood
The building on the left is the abandoned building from which Groskinsky took several of his photographs on the night of April 4; the building on the right is likely the house from which James Earl Ray shot Dr. King. "The atmosphere of those dark, creepy buildings ... It was a little scary crawling into the building, because who knows who is going to be there? Who doesn't want you to be there?"
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968

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Across the Street From the Lorraine Motel
A photo taken through tree branches by Groskinsky from a derelict building across the street from the Lorraine, very close to where the shot that killed Dr. King likely came from. "I stood on top of the commode in the bathroom of that abandoned building in order to take the pictures out of the window. It was less than 100 yards from where I was to where Dr. King must have been standing."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968





Dr. King's Friends Console Each Other
Ralph Abernathy and William Campbell, a long-time friend, embrace in Dr. King's room. "I was documenting a momentous event, and I thought that at any time I was going to be asked to leave, so I did what I could as quickly as I could."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968





Cleaning the Last of the Blood From the Balcony
Theatrice Bailey attempts to clean blood from the balcony, hours after the 6 p.m. shooting. "I don't know if there were official people around taking notes and pictures and things like that. Nobody was there when we were there. And the fact that the blood was still on the floor, and this man is actually putting it in a jar ... When you see a picture like that, God, it feels invasive."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968

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LIFE Presents: Never-Before-Published Photos From Memphis, April 4, 1968
On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. They raced to the scene and there, incredibly, had unfettered access to the hotel grounds, Dr. King's room, and the surrounding area. For reasons that have been lost in the intervening years, the photographs taken that night and the next day were never published. Until now.
Photo: -/AFP/Getty Images
Mar 29, 1966





The Sign at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, April 4, 1968
LIFE asked Henry Groskinsky, now 75, to look back on that night 41 years ago and recall what it felt like to chronicle one of the most somber days in American history. Pictured: The eerily empty streets around the Lorraine Motel in the hours after Dr. King's assassination. "I was surprised at how desolate it all was," Groskinsky says of the Lorraine's Memphis neighborhood. "But then, people probably thought that the person who shot Dr. King might still be out there somewhere."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968





The Balcony at the Lorraine Motel
Colleagues gather on the balcony outside room 306, just a few feet from where Dr. King was shot. Groskinsky remembers that "the people at the Lorraine were annoyed that the media was talking about how there were going to be all these demonstrations. Eventually there were, but not there. Not that night. It was very quiet. I was afraid that it was going to change."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968

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The Plane That Would Take Dr. King's Remains to Montgomery
An airplane dispatched by the U.S. government to retrieve Dr. King's body and return it to Montgomery, Alabama, waits on the tarmac in Memphis. "Here we were, two White guys in the Deep South right after the murder of the preeminent leader of the black community, and we're taking pictures. Voyeurs, in a sense. We were apprehensive about it. But when we got there, there were no big problems for us."
Photo: Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures
Apr 04, 1968








Alone After Dr. King's Death
Bill Campbell, alone on the motel balcony, gazing out into the night. "This photograph was probably made almost as soon as we got there, because there were a lot of people milling about in the dark, and then all of a sudden it cleared up. When I saw him standing there, alone, I thought to myself, 'Wow.' This isn't a posed picture. He's in deep pain, standing there by himself, as if asking, 'My God, what has happened here?'" See photos of significant and triumphant moments from Dr. King's life.