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Verso: black felt tip note: S.P. Station Berkeley, 5:45 PM train. S.P. crossed out with pencil and note added: Santa Fe, blue pen notes: Train #2, 4 col P3-1st Sat, wlcds(?), 2 purple stamps: Howard Erker, Aug 6 1965, newspaper caption attached: Thumbs down greeting returned by solitary GI as train rolled on behind police guard, w/ date stamp TRE Aug 7 1965. Image: This picture is taken from above and shows a train across the back of the frame and a small crowd standing on the left facing the train. There is an African American soldier in fatigues standing in the door of the train. The door has the bottom half closed. The soldier is raising his right arm in what looks like a salute. A window in his train car has '102A' stenciled on it. The train car on the right is labeled Pullman. There is a single police officer standing with his back to the train, looking to the right along the crowd. The crowd consists of young men and women and there is one African American child. Some of the crowd members are waving, others are giving the thumbs-down sign. Some people are holding signs. One image on a sign shows hands holding a rifle broken in half with the letters WRL beneath.