As much as I love to write, I don't think I can go into detail about my visit to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee where Dr. Matin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Today would have been his 79th birthday.
In the photograph which was taken by yours truly, you are looking at the Lorraine Motel's front side. To the right of the wreath and about two feet back is where Dr. King was struck down by James Earl Ray. If you were there when it happened, the shot would have come over your left shoulder at about "8 o'clock" if you think of the wreath as being at "12 o'clock".
The two panes of glass where the curtains are open on the second floor are hallways inside the building, now the National Civil Rights Museum. If you were facing out from inside those panes of glass, Dr. King's room would be to your right and Dr. Ralph Abernathy's room to your right. The rooms, with clear side walls so you can view them, are arranged and furnished as they were that fateful day.
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The moment you snapped this photograph was a somber one for me.
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