Forty-One Years Ago...

This Saturday is the 41st marking of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's death. LIFE Magazine has decided to release some eerie photographs of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee taken after the assassination. It's interesting to note, if you watch the film "Elizabethtown," you see Orlando Bloom's character actually go into this motel on his road trip home, and it's been entirely preserved in the state that it was in when Dr. King got up that morning. I don't know about you but I get a little queasy when I look at settings where horrible events have taken place that have not been touched. Of particular creepiness is his personal briefcase sitting on a countertop, as if he had stepped out for some air or gone to get some ice cubes...

The Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968