The iconic image of Dr. King dying was captured by Joseph Louw, a young black
South African photographer who was working with King on a documentary film. He
was staying at the same motel just a few doors away, and when Louw heard a shot
he ran out to see King lying on the balcony floor, and his aides signaling to
police below the direction from which the assassin’s bullet came. Afterwards,
Louw asked the Memphis-based photographer Ernest C. Withers (known as the
“original civil rights photographer”) the permission to use the latter’s
darkroom to develop the film.
The next day, it was on the front pages all over
the world.
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