On the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, LIFE presents photographs from the day MLK died at the Lorraine Motel.
Unpublished: Martin Luther King Jr.’s neatly packed, monogrammed briefcase in his room at the Lorraine Motel, April 4, 1968 — with his brush, his pajamas, a can of shaving cream and his book, Strength to Love, visible in the pocket.
See more here.
disneyland, 1957
Ernest Hemingway with his son Gregory during a hunting trip.
Sun Valley, Idaho - 1941.
Photo by Robert Capa.
Election Night Crowd (Wellington, 1931) by William Hall Raine.
Salvador Dalí
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Pat McGee rides barefoot as she demonstrates her skateboarding technique in California. Looking ever so stylish, might we add, in that red sweater and white pants.
(see more — LIFE Goes Skateboarding)
Mark Twain’s library.
Senator John F. Kennedy campaigning in West Virginia, 1960.
