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HISTORICAL SOURCE 4
Kent State Shooting
Photographer John Filo was a senior at Kent State University when antiwar
demonstrations rocked the campus. When the National Guard began firing at student
protesters, Filo began shooting pictures. Nixon and his supporters had been
successful in characterizing student protesters as spoiled and destructive young
people, not worthy of serious consideration. Filo's Pulitzer-prize winning photograph
of Mary Ann Vecchio grieving over the body of Jeffery Glenn Miller changed these
perceptions by suggesting that the students-who looked no different than other
young people of the time-were undeserving of the brutal response
of the
National
Guard.
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Why do you think this photograph remains a symbol of the Vietnam War era today?