No Comment: Robert Jensen is the special agent in charge of the Memphis FBI and is spearheading the massive Memphis investigation in the hunt for Dr. King's killer. He has no reply to questions put to him by a reporter in his office in Memphis. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4.

Associated Press ID #6804131131

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Assassinations
• Civil Rights Movements
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Injustice
• James Earl Ray
• Manhunts
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Memphis
• Murder
• Racial Discrimination
• Robert Jensen

• Image Dimensions: 9 13/16 x 7 in. (24.92 x 17.78 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 8 in. (26.04 x 20.32 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin