Miscalculation could mean violence
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Photograph
Miscalculation could mean violence
1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 15.5 x 21.1 cm (6 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
Paper: 17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0346.0014
Inscriptions recto (grease pencil): 4 / 66 / use[illeg.]
(typed on attached paper): L 13133 (NY 4) / ASSOCIATED PRESSPHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / ADVANCE FOR MONDAY PMS, JULY 29--WITH BERNARD / GAVZER STORY FROM AP-N [underlined] / MISCALCULATION COULD MEAN VIOLENCE / POLICE REACTION TO JEERING CROWDS, IN E / EITHER NORTH OR SOUTH, COULD RESULT IN MAJOR / RACIAL VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. THIS SUMMER. AS / THIS POLICEMAN IN BIRMINGHAM FACED A CROWD / IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, SO WILL OTHER LAW / ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN OTHER CITIES / FACE DEMONSTRATORS. A MISCALCULATION IN / THE HANDLING OF A CROWD COULD BE THE SPARK / THAT TOUCHES OFF A RACIAL CONFLAGRATION. / NW 840A 7/18/63 FILES 40 / WTELLT NYT NYWS NR GHART LON ROM PAR GER / S&S TMC NWSK WW
verso (ink): 3 [illeg.] CRISIS / TU [?] Advance Mon July 29 / for V Doughey
(typed on attached paper): L 13133 (NY 4) / ASSOCIATED PRESSPHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / ADVANCE FOR MONDAY PMS, JULY 29--WITH BERNARD / GAVZER STORY FROM AP-N [underlined] / MISCALCULATION COULD MEAN VIOLENCE / POLICE REACTION TO JEERING CROWDS, IN E / EITHER NORTH OR SOUTH, COULD RESULT IN MAJOR / RACIAL VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. THIS SUMMER. AS / THIS POLICEMAN IN BIRMINGHAM FACED A CROWD / IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, SO WILL OTHER LAW / ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN OTHER CITIES / FACE DEMONSTRATORS. A MISCALCULATION IN / THE HANDLING OF A CROWD COULD BE THE SPARK / THAT TOUCHES OFF A RACIAL CONFLAGRATION. / NW 840A 7/18/63 FILES 40 / WTELLT NYT NYWS NR GHART LON ROM PAR GER / S&S TMC NWSK WW
verso (ink): 3 [illeg.] CRISIS / TU [?] Advance Mon July 29 / for V Doughey
