Victim of snipers aided
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Photograph
Victim of snipers aided
July 17, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.7 x 16.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Paper: 22.9 x 17.9 cm (9 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0010
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): D 7354 (NY9) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / VICTIM OF SNIPERS AIDED / PLAINFIELD POLICEMAN CARRY A WOMAN TO / POLICE STATION EARLY JULY 17 AFTER SHE / WAS HIT BY SNIPERS AS SHE TRIED TO REACH / THE SAFETY OF THE STATION AS RIOTING / ERUPTED. THE WOMAN TUMBLED FROM A BULLET- / POCKED CAR AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS / CRYING, "THEY SHOT ME! THEY SHOT ME!" / EARLIER IN THE NIGHT A PLAINFIELD POLICE- / MAN WAS SHOT AND DIED AFTER BEING BEATEN / AND STOMPED BY A NEGRO GANG. PLAINFIELD, / N.J., IS ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF / NEWARK. / DLR-W 835A 7-17-67 STF-JD 48 / NYT NYWS CBS NR STAATS LON PAR SS ROM / GER TYO [illeg.]
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