Untitled (New Mexico Army National Guards March Toward Strikers)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Date1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (23.5 × 15.9 cm)
Support: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Support: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Paige Pinnell, 2011
Object number2011.14.10
DescriptionNational Guard soldiers outdoors in group march toward strikers, wearing gas masks and holding rifles with fixed bayonets.eMuseum Notes
No title (Guardsmen March Toward Strikers) presents the beginning of the attack as Guardsmen with gas masks and rifles with fixed bayonets march toward the strikers. From a series of gelatin silver photographs by unidentified photography students documenting the May, 1970, strike at the University of New Mexico. The strike occurred after four antiwar students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen while protesting the invasion of Cambodia by the United States military during the Viet Nam War. The photographs culminate with the bayonetting of thirteen individuals, however, none were killed.
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