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A Photo Goes Viral, Enters History

By Duane Shank
UC Davis student photojournalist Brian Nguyen's iconic photograph via The Califo
UC Davis student photojournalist Brian Nguyen's iconic photograph via The California Aggie http://bit.ly/t6DP3R
Nov 23, 2011
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There are photographs that have become part of our iconic memory.

Think of German shepherds straining at their leashes and the water from fire hoses striking students in Birmingham, the young woman at Kent State kneeling in anguish over the body of a student who had just been killed by National Guard bullets, a young girl running naked down the road after a napalm attack on Vietnam.

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UC Davis student photojournalist Brian Nguyen's iconic photograph via The California Aggie http://bit.ly/t6DP3R
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