(CIVIL RIGHTS) [Joseph Louw; photographer] Photograph taken

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) [Joseph Louw; photographer.] Photograph taken moments after the King assassination. Photograph, 7 x 9 inches, with Associated Press stamp and other newspaper markings on verso including a 1 December 1969 date stamp; light 4-inch diagonal crease. [Memphis, TN, 4 April 1968]

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When Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony of his Memphis hotel, Joseph Louw (1939-2003) was the only photographer on the scene. Louw was a mixed-race South African who had fled to America after breaking his country's apartheid laws. In April 1968, he was following Dr. King for the Public Broadcasting Laboratory. He was in his hotel room when the shots rang out, and rushed out to the balcony to capture this iconic image, as King's aides pointed to the rooftop from where the shots had been fired.