Wednesday, April 22, 2009

These photos are amazing.
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.


this, this, and this are also pretty awesome




playlist:
Sparta - Porcelain
Metric - Fantasies

1 comment:

Aaron Edge said...

— Yer pretty awesome.