Seek refuge
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Seek refuge

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Seek refuge

July 17, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.7 x 21.7 cm (6 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Paper: 18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0072
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): D 7357 (NY10) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / SEEK REFUGE / A PLAINFIELD, N.J., FAMILY ARRIVES AT / THE PLAINFIELD POLICE STATION AFTER IN- / TENSE SNIPER FIRE IN THE REGION FORCED / THEM TO SEEK REFUGE. / IT WAS THE THIRD / NIGHT OF VIOLENCE IN THE NEW JERSEY CITY / 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWARK. A WHITE / POLICEMAN WAS SHOT AND STOMPED TO DEATH / BY A GANG OF NEGRO YOUTHS IN PLAINFIELD / THE NIGHT OF JULY 16. / DLR-M 10A 7-17-67 STF-JD 40 / NYT NYWS CBS NR STAATS SAMER / CARIB PR TMC NSWK WW

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