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Associated Press Baltimore, MD

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09740.047 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Baltimore, Maryland Type: Photograph Date: 8 April 1968 Pagination: 1 telephoto photograph Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm Order a Copy

One telephoto entitled, "Baltimore, MD" dated April 8, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Depicts a National Guardsman standing next to three Black men who are leaning on a wall with their hands and heads bent down. Wire transfer information states they were "suspected of looting." Image was taken during riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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