LIFE asked Henry Groskinsky, now 75, to look back on that night 41 years ago and recall what it felt like to chronicle one of the most somber days in American history. Pictured: The eerily empty streets around the Lorraine Motel in the hours after Dr. King's assassination. "I was surprised at how desolate it all was," Groskinsky says of the Lorraine's Memphis neighborhood. "But then, people probably thought that the person who shot Dr. King might still be out there somewhere."