Associated Press Assassin's Room
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.011 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: 5 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 21.3 x 26.3 cm. Order a Copy
One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts a newsman in the room rented by James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, in a motel adjacent to the Lorraine hotel.
The motel in which the assassin stayed is referred to as a "flophouse" in the wirephoto text description.
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