Mary Ann Vecchio
Kent State protester (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mary Ann Vecchio (born December 4, 1955) is an Italian American respiratory therapist and one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Mary Ann Vecchio | |
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Born | (1955-12-04) December 4, 1955 (age 68) |
Nationality | Italian-American |
Known for | Subject of 1970 Kent State shootings photograph |
The photograph depicts the 14-year-old Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller, who had been fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard moments earlier. Vecchio had joined the protest while visiting the campus, where she befriended two of the other students who would be hit by gunfire that day: Sandra Scheuer, who was killed, and Alan Canfora, who was wounded in the right wrist.[1]