Salon: Kent State photo reunion: John Filo (photographer) & Mary Vecchio (subject)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Subject, photographer of Kent State image reunite

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/us/2009/05/05/D9805F481_us_kent_state_reunion/index.html

May 5th, 2009 | KENT, Ohio -- The girl screaming in a familiar image taken after the Kent State shootings has reunited on campus with the man who took the photo.

John Filo (FY'-loh) kissed Mary Vecchio (VEK'-ee-oh) on the cheek Monday after they appeared together at an anniversary event at Kent State University.

It was the first time the two were together at the school since May 4, 1970. That's when a Vietnam War protest ended with the National Guard shootings that left four dead.

Filo was a senior photojournalism major and would win a Pulitzer Prize for his photo of Vecchio crying out with her arms raised as she knelt at the body of a student.

At the time, Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway who had come to Kent State to take part in the campus war protests.

[jaxx]

1. The day the USA lost it's mind.

I don't know whether to say thanks for the reminder or to cry....maybe both.

[hedgehog]

2. I've always wondered about the girl in the white striped t-shirt

walking past on the left. Was she even part of the demonstration, or was she she walking through on the way to class? Did she know what had just happened?


Kent State is what happens when the overheated rhetoric of the Right goes unchallenged. Did the National Guardsmen fire because they were afraid, or because they thought everyone would approve, or was it some combination?

[villager]

3. Here they are today:

[Warpy]

4. The rest of the story is here

http://www.ohio.com/news/44341132.html

Salon is inadequate.