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| Title | Protestors and police on I-5, Seattle, May 5, 1970 |
| Photographer | Thomas, Paul
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1970 |
| Caption | Thousands of protesting University of Washington students and faculty members blocked Interstate 5 for nearly an hour as they marched to a rally at the U.S. Courthouse downtown. The crowd had gathered on campus to demand that the university take a moral stand against the killing of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen and the bombing of Cambodia by U.S. forces. About 30 state troopers in riot gear blocked the crowd at the Roanoke interchange. The crowd, in a congenial mood, sat down and continued to chant. After some impromptu negotiations with the police, the marchers left the freeway and followed Eastlake and Fairview Avenues to the courthouse. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: U.W. demonstration on freeway confrontation.
Caption information source: P-I exhibit.
Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: May 6, 1970. |
| Subjects | Demonstrations--Washington (State)--Seattle; Police--Washington (State)--Seattle; Express highways--Washington (State)--Seattle; Student movements--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
University District (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.52212.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: b&w |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
