Thursday, July 22, 2010

What's the name of a picture taking during the 60s at Ohio St. University of a person sticking a flower in gun

it was taken at a protest demonstration. it's black and white and the man is placing a flower in the barrel of a gun

What's the name of a picture taking during the 60s at Ohio St. University of a person sticking a flower in gun
I looked this up a couple years ago for someone else. The picture wasn't taken at Ohio State. It was a Vietnam War protest in Washington DC, I believe. The photo is called "Flower Power". Here's the link for you:





http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2008/jan/25/...





I think that photo keeps getting confused with the story of one of the slain students who had put a flower in a gun the previous day:


http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/...


Shortly after four students were killed by National Guard bullets on the Kent State University campus on May 4, 1970, Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem dedicated to Allison Krause, one of the slain students. Its theme was based on the report that the day before her death, Ms Krause had put a flower on a National Guardsman's rifle, saying that "flowers are better than bullets." The poem, "Flowers %26amp; Bullets," was printed in Pravda, the Communist party newspaper.





This site has a lot of pictures related to the Kent State massacre:


http://www.may4archive.org/images.shtml
Reply:I don't know the name of the photo but I believe it appeared on the cover of either Time or Life magazine and I believe it was actually Kent State University not Ohio St. I know it had to do with Vietnam War protest and pretty sure it was a national guardsmen whose rifle the man put the flower in and shortly after there was a bunch of shooting by the guardsmen. Don't remember which year though. Been a long time ago and my memory isn't what it once was.


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