Untitled (New Mexico Army National Guards and Bloodstains)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Date1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.8 × 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 number2011.14.16
DescriptionThree New Mexico Army National Guards stand on the university plaza, pointing upward their guns with fixed bayonets. Blood stains in foreground are from injured protestors.eMuseum Notes
No Title (Soldiers Guard the Blood on the Sidewalk) presents the aftermath of clearing the campus. From a series of gelatin silver photographs by unidentified photography student 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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