Stunned, silent members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Dr. King’s room at the Lorraine Motel, April 4, 1968, including Andrew Young (far left, under table lamp) and civil rights leader and Dr. King’s colleague, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, in the middle on the far bed. “I was very discreet,” Groskinsky recalls. “I shot just enough to document what was going on. I didn’t want to make a nuisance of myself. There, almost in the center of the picture, in the mirror you can see my reflection. I took a couple of pictures and just kind of backed off.”
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