Unforgettable Change: 1960s: People’s Park Fights UC Land Use Policy; One Dead, Thousands Tear Gassed
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. National Guardsmen, wearing gas masks. May 18, 1969. Kenneth Green, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
This is a photograph of National Guardsmen, each wearing a gas mask, and holding a rifle with bayonet. The guardsmen were on stand-by for potential problems stemming from the demonstrations regarding the People’s Park in Berkeley, California, in May 1969. In the foreground sits an azalea plant in a freshly dug hole.