Anguish: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest rally at Kent State University here May 4. The slain girl [sic] is one of two girls and two boys killed during the disorders
Anguish: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest rally at Kent State University here May 4. The slain girl [sic] is one of two girls and two boys killed during the disorders

© 1970, John Filo

Anguish: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest rally at Kent State University here May 4. The slain girl [sic] is one of two girls and two boys killed during the disorders
Anguish: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest rally at Kent State University here May 4. The slain girl [sic] is one of two girls and two boys killed during the disorders

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Anguish: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest rally at Kent State University here May 4. The slain girl [sic] is one of two girls and two boys killed during the disorders,

May 4, 1970

John Filo, born 1948, Natrona Heights, PA
2008-40

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Title
Anguish: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest rally at Kent State University here May 4. The slain girl [sic] is one of two girls and two boys killed during the disorders
Dates

May 4, 1970

Maker
John Filo
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.5 × 24.3 cm (6 7/8 × 9 9/16 in.) sheet: 20.5 x 25.4 cm. (8 1/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2008-40
Place Depicted

North America, United States, Ohio, Kent, Kent State University

Marks/Labels/Seals
Caption affixed to bottom of print: PSP 050506 [long ellipses] NEW YORK BUREAU / Anguish / KENT, OHIO: Clasping her head in anguish, coed reacts / with horror upon seeing body of student who was shot / and killed by National Guardsmen during war protest / rally at Kent State University here May 4th. The slain / girl is one of two girls and two boys killed during the / disorders. / RU / CREDIT (UPI TELEPHOTO) 5/5/70 hgr/jd Press stamp verso
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
deaths, political events, students, men, figures (representations), universities, women, violence

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