The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
Depiction: A National Guardsman fires a gas canister toward an unseen crowd. There is a puff of smoke leaving the weapon. Around him are other Guardsmen watching the canister fly. Some are sitting in an Army jeep behind him. All are wearing gas masks. In the window of the building behind them are businessmen and women in white shirts looking on.
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