The Cornell library has put together a fascinating slideshow of images from the Straight takeover, including photographs and scans of letters, memos, leaflets, booklets, newspaper headlines, etc. It is available at this link.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Images From the Straight Takeover
The Cornell library has put together a fascinating slideshow of images from the Straight takeover, including photographs and scans of letters, memos, leaflets, booklets, newspaper headlines, etc. It is available at this link.
Monday, March 23, 2009
The Photo That Changed My Career
In 1969 I was a photographer for the Cornell yearbook, and on the day the AAS students were about to emerge from Willard Straight Hall, I was waiting outside the building with my camera. I was there a long time, and eventually some friends came by and started mugging for me, asking me to take their pictures for The Cornellian. I obliged, and promptly ran out of film. Just then, Tom Jones, Skip Meade and the others emerged from the Straight, with their bandoleers and rifles. The guy next to me snapped the photo, which appeared on the cover of Newsweek. Steve Starr won a Pulitzer Prize for that photo. I gave up photography and became a college professor!
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