the woman standing behind the al" is alison krauss. theantiwar sentiment was on minds of many students especially the young man who knew they were deferred from the draft as long as they remained in school. this would change on december 1 that year when the draft lottery was put in place. as a photographer on campus, other than this protest march, most of the protesting i heard was in the classrooms and the student unions. the next antiwar gathering would not occur until may 1, 1970 when 300-500 students would attend a rally to protest nixon's expansion of the vietnam war into cambodia. by the fall, the antiwar movement had grown off college campuses to the mall in d.c. four of us decided to drive to washington, d.c. to join the antiwar protests on november 15. a few weeks after our own homecoming. we arrived friday evening in time to watch people on the soldiers that died in vietnam. int night, 18 of us slept one realm in our friend storm. the next morning, we headed to the mall and i was impressed by the size of the crowd and by thei

on the right just under the pagoda is alison krauss. again, that is the person i took a photograph of in 1965. alison krauss was a freshman honor student. she was born in cleveland in 1951. this photo is particularly difficult for me to look at because i see her holding hands with her boyfriend barry levine and go back to 1969 and remember the original photograph i took of her and the banner that read "bring all the troops home." at this point, the guard seemed to have completed its objective. they were supposed to disperse the students from the crowd that had gathered in front of taylor hall. yet, the guardsmen were still advancing. what more did they need to accomplish? what was their real objective here? what they really wanted was for this all to end so they could go home. as the guard continued their marching, they reached the corner of taylor hall. i witnessed the group at the rear turn in unison. some crouched down while others stood. and the gunshots began. of course i thought they would be shooting blanks. i took a photograph a