Ready for trouble
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Ready for trouble

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Associated Press

Maker
American

Ready for trouble

July 17, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.3 x 23.6 cm (7 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.5 x 25.3 cm (8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0011
Inscriptions recto (printed): (NN4) PLAINFIELD, N.J., JULY 17-READY FOR TROUBLE-Plainfield police don / flak vests as they assemble at the Plainfield police headquarters this / evening as the city faced another night of racial unrest and violence. The / vests are similar to the protection worn by Marines fighting in Viet / Nam. State Police and National Guardsmen are also on duty in Plainfield. / (AP Wirephoto) (jtm22140stf-ETA)1967 SEE AP WIRE STORY

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