It's the ordinariness of the contents--pajamas, brush, newspaper, shaving cream--compared to the greatness of the man, and to the horror and tragedy of the event, that has always stayed with me about this photo.
(Image source: life.com.)
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Contents of a briefcase: 4/4/68
Martin Luther King's briefcase, photographed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis shortly after Dr. King was assassinated:
It's the ordinariness of the contents--pajamas, brush, newspaper, shaving cream--compared to the greatness of the man, and to the horror and tragedy of the event, that has always stayed with me about this photo.
(Image source: life.com.)
It's the ordinariness of the contents--pajamas, brush, newspaper, shaving cream--compared to the greatness of the man, and to the horror and tragedy of the event, that has always stayed with me about this photo.
(Image source: life.com.)
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