Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire

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Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Artist/Maker
DateMay 29, 1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 9 5/16 × 6 5/8 in. (23.7 × 16.9 cm) Sheet: 10 × 7 1/4 in. (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.184
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Markings Verso, center (stamp, red ink): "RETURN to: / CHRONICLE FILES"
Verso, lower right center (stamp, red ink): [circled with blue ink] "JUN 2 1966"
Inscribed Recto, lower edge (blue ink): "Vietnam - South"
Verso, upper left corner (pencil): "ANON-VNM-183"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "1200"
Verso, upper center (blue ink): "SOUTH VIETNAM"

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