Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks center left and center right in blue crayon; on verso, top right stamped in red ink perpendicular: S-R / APR 5 1993; top right: S-R / JAN 20 1993; top right: S-R / JAN 17 1992; top right: S-R / JUL 22 1991; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 9 [circled] / 2 1/4 x 2 3/8 / -23 3/4 / 14-120 / 51; upper right stamped in red ink: S-R / APR 4 1981; center right stamped in red ink: CHRONICLE / APR 5 1968; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Where Assassin's Bullet Struck / Dr. Martin Luther King [underlined in blue ink] stands on the balcony of / the Memphis, Tenn., motel approximately the / spot where he was shot by an assassin. This picture / was made Wednesday, one day before the shooting, / shortly after Dr. King arrived in Memphis. Stand- / ing next to Dr. King, tieless, is Jesse Jackson, an / associate to whom Dr. King was talking the instant / he was shot. At right is Rev. Ralph Abernathy. / The man at the left in the photograph is not identi- / fied. (AP wirephoto.); lower right stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: CHRONICLE / APR 5 1968; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: [illegible] Balcony