Guardsmen leave Newark
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Guardsmen leave Newark

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Guardsmen leave Newark

July 17, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24 x 17.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 25.4 x 20.6 cm (10 x 8 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0018
Inscriptions recto (printed): (NN3) NEWARK, N.J., JULY 17-GUARDSMEN LEAVE NEWARK-National Guardsman SP4 / James McGarry of Newark shoulders his duffle bag as he leaves Newark's / Roosevelt Armory today as National Guard troops and State Police, behind / McGarry, were withdrawn from the city after five nights of racial / violence which took more than 20 lives and injured at least 500 persons. / The armory was comman headquarters for the soldiers and police. McGarry / was among the last to leave. (AP Wirephoto) (jtm22100stf-RH) 1967 SEE AP / WIRE STORY

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