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This document is a black and white photograph taken by John Paul Filo in 1970, during the Vietnam War.
It is entitled « Kent State Shooting ».
In the middle of the picture, we can see a woman who is kneeling. She is crying and looking at the camera. She looks terrified.
In the foreground , in front of the woman, there is the body of a person, lying on the ground.
The woman is catching the arm of another person next to her.
In the background, we can see other people who are walking. On the top left corner, two persons are watching the scene.
The face of the woman and to the body catch the viewer’s attention.
We can easily imagine that the lying person is dead because of the woman’s reaction.
Moreover, the title of the picture « Kent State Shooting » helps us understand the situation.
As we can see a lot of people, we can suppose that they were in a demonstration and that some of them were shot.
We can notice that the woman has a white piece of fabric around her neck. White usually symbolizes peace, so we can deduce that the demonstration was against violence during the Vietnam War.
I guess the photographer wanted to denounce the violence of the authorities.
I imagine the photographer took this picture in order to protest against injustice.
John Paul Filo’s picture made people realize that the Vietnam war made victims not only on the Vietnamese territory.
To me, this picture is shocking because we can see a corpse on the foreground.
I have never seen this photo before, but I have seen other pictures that denounced the Vietnam War.
