Photos show access to motel where MLK Jr. was assassinated 46 years ago
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}April 4: The Lorraine Motel in Memphis seen just hours after Dr. King's assassination. Henry Groskinsky told Life.com, “I was astonished by how desolate it all was." (Henry Groskinsky—Time & Life Picture/Getty Images)
April 4, 1968: Photo taken inside Lorraine Motel shows Martin Luther King Jr.'s monogrammed briefcase left behind in his room. The photo shows his brush, his pajamas, a can of shaving cream and his book, "Strength to Love." (Henry Groskinsky—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image)
April 4, 1968: Colleagues of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., stand outside the Lorraine Motel just a few feet from where the civil rights leader was killed. (Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
April 5: An airplane dispatched by the U.S. government to retrieve MLK's body in Memphis, Tenn. Groskinsky told Life.com "Here we were, two white guys in the Deep South right after the murder of the preeminent leader of the black community — voyeurs, in a sense. "We were apprehensive about it. But when we got there, there were no big problems for us." (Henry Groskinsky/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)