An airplane dispatched by the U.S. government to retrieve Dr. King’s body and return it to Atlanta, Ga., waits on the tarmac in Memphis, Tenn., the day after MLK’s assassination. (29/76)

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An airplane dispatched by the U.S. government to retrieve Dr. King's body and return it to Atlanta, Ga., waits on the tarmac in Memphis, Tenn., the day after MLK's assassination.

“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,” Groskinsky told LIFE. “We were apprehensive about it. But when we got there, there were no big problems for us.”

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