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Will D. Campbell, alone on the Lorraine Motel balcony, gazes out into the night. "This picture was probably made as soon as we got there," Groskinsky told LIFE.com. "When I saw him standing there, alone, I thought it looked as if he was just asking himsel history

The Night MLK Was Murdered: A Photographer’s Story

A boy badly burned by the Hiroshima bomb four years earlier, seen in 1949. history

After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors

Children watch the story of "Saint George and the Dragon" at an outdoor puppet theater in Paris, 1963. history

Paris in 1963: Children at a Puppet Show, and More

In a thousand-year-old rite, the witches dance around bonfire within prehistoric Rollright stone circle that stands in Oxfordshire. history

The Wonderful World of Witches: Portraits of English Pagans, 1964

John Glenn, 1959 history

The Right Stuff: When America Met the Mercury Astronauts

Albert Einstein's office - just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it - taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955. history

The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story

Adolf Hitler receives a model of a Condor airplane as a gift on his 50th birthday, Berlin, April 20, 1939. history

Hitler at 50: Color Photos From a Despot’s Garish Birthday Bash

Apollo 9, March 1969. On the fourth day of the mission, astronaut David Scott stood in the open hatch of the command module and scanned the blue earth below. history

The Amazing Lunar Module: From Early Models to the Moon

Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, 1967. history

The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee

Marine Capt. Francis "Ike" Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, 1950. history

David Douglas Duncan and the Korean War: A Defining Photo

Freedom riders, along with Martin Luther King Jr., relax at a safe house in Montgomery, Ala. history

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Riders: Rare and Classic Photos

Young America League Football, 1939 history

Little Tough Guys: Faces of the Young America Football League, 1939

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