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Sniping at Snipers, a national guardsman crouches behind a parked car last night outside 10th district police station, on Detroit's west side, trying (...)
Sniping at Snipers, a national guardsman crouches behind a parked car last night outside 10th district police station, on Detroit's west side, trying (...)

Sniping at Snipers, a national guardsman crouches behind a parked car last night outside 10th district police station, on Detroit's west side, trying (...)

Date7/25/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sniping at Snipers; a national guardsman crouches behind a parked car last night outside 10th district police station; on Detroit's west side; trying to spot where sniper fire is coming from. With gun battles still raging through city despite federal troops; bail for suspected snipers is set as prohibitively high as $200;000.
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Sniper bullets peppering the area forced this Negro to dive for shelter beneath a truck parked near the 10th district police station in Detroit last night
Sniper bullets peppering the area forced this Negro to dive for shelter beneath a truck parked near the 10th district police station in Detroit last night
7/25/1967
Watching a building from which a sniper fired on the Don Valley Parkway yesterday, a police officer crouches behind his car, a telescopic sight on his(...)
Watching a building from which a sniper fired on the Don Valley Parkway yesterday, a police officer crouches behind his car, a telescopic sight on his(...)
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Fleeing the scene: Two Negro girls run from a Detroit shop as a national guardsman, bayoneted rifle at the ready, one of 8,000 in the embattled city, looks on
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Police chief James Mackey crouches behind car during downtown gunfight last night
Police chief James Mackey crouches behind car during downtown gunfight last night
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Sniper on the doorstep. Leafs goalie Felix Potvin crouches and appears to have all the angles covered on Buffalo sniper Wayne Presley. Potvin played s(...)
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National Guardsmen restore an uneasy peace to riot-torn Cleveland, Negro district exploded into violence, destruction and looting for the second night in a row
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Shotgun blast victim Patrolman Joseph Hennigan lies by a squad car as racial rioting flared for the second straight night in Buffalo's Negro ghetto last night
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Broom patrol: A resident of south-central Los Angels yesterday prepares to clean up the mess left behind by looters, while thousands of National Guard troops patrolled the streets
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JoAnne Woodfine, 10, describes her escape from a sniper's shotgun as police examine the pellet-damaged car she was riding in and bikers wait to get back into their clubhouse
JoAnne Woodfine, 10, describes her escape from a sniper's shotgun as police examine the pellet-damaged car she was riding in and bikers wait to get back into their clubhouse
11/9/1980
JoAnne Woodfine, 10, describes her escape from a sniper's shotgun as police examine the pellet-damaged car she was riding in and bikers wait to get back into their clubhouse
JoAnne Woodfine, 10, describes her escape from a sniper's shotgun as police examine the pellet-damaged car she was riding in and bikers wait to get back into their clubhouse
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