Confrontation
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Confrontation

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Confrontation

August 24, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.6 x 23.9 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0047
Inscriptions recto (printed): (BX10) BOSTON, AUG. 24 -- CONFRONTATION -- Police Sgt. James Tatasky of the Som- / erville, Mass., department, who was off-duty at the time, aims his gun at a / youth he caught breaking store windows on Washington Street in the down- / town shopping district of Boston. The boy threatens to toss a bottle at / the officer. This photo was made by Boston Globe staff photographer Bill Brett. (AP Wirephoto) (AEM52130glo) 67

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