Title from caption on object: “Moments after an Assassin’s Bullet Struck the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr...”, April 4, 1968

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 14.5 × 21.3 cm (5 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 14.5 × 21.8 cm (5 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.471

Artists / Makers

Joseph Louw (artist) South African, 1945 - 2004

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied pink sticker: RETURN / TO / LIBRARY; upper center printed in black ink on applied green sticker perpendicular: ARCHIVED; upper center printed in black ink on applied pink sticker: RET[URN] / [TO] / LI[BRARY]; upper right printed in black ink on applied paper and underlined in blue ink: Public Broadcast Laboratory took / this photo moments after an / assassin's bullet struck the Rev. / Martin Luther King Jr. King's aides / are point out to police the / direction from which the fatal shot / was fired. Above is King in a 1968 / photo. RIGHT: James Earl Ray is / interviewed at the Riverbend Maxi- / mum Security Institution in Nash- / ville, Tenn., where he is serving 99 / years for King's murder. Ray pro- / claims in his new book, "Who / Killed Martin Luther King?" that / he is innocent.; upper right stamped in blue ink inverted: PM 2:00; by unknown hand, center left in graphite: S.S.; center in blue ink perpendicular: Death; center stamped in blue ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: TU APR 9 - 1969 LATE 2; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: MOMENTS after an assassin's bullet / struck the Rev. Martin Luther [circled in blue ink] / King, jr., [circled in blue ink] in Memphis Thursday, this / photograph was made by Joseph Louw / of the Public Broadcast Laboratory. / Mr. King's aides were pointing out to / police the direction from which the fa- / tal shot was fired when Louw made / the picture from the doorway of his / motel room. Louw was on an assign- / ment as assistant producer of a televi- / sion show on Mr. King's planned "poor / people's march." The photograph was / released by Life magazine, which ob- / tained it exclusively from the photog- / rapher. / © Time, Inc., via AP Wirephoto; center right stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: TU APR 9-1968 / SENTINEL; center right printed in black ink on applied newspaper: after an as- / [cut off] Rev. Martin / [cut off] / to police below the direction from which / the bullet came. The photo is by Jo- / [cut off]; lower left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: [Ret]urn to Library

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary