The Day MLK Was Assassinated: A Photographer’s Story

Colleagues gather on the balcony outside the Lorraine Motel's room 306, just a few feet from where Dr. King was shot, April 4, 1968.
Civil Rights Movement
'60s
Henry Groskinsky—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

On April 4, 1968, LIFE's Henry Groskinsky, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot in Memphis. He raced to the scene and captured grim, riveting images that went unpublished for decades. Read More

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