Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PAN-ASIA PHOTO NEWS
Event Date: 1959-07-03
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.074564

Inscriptions:
Credit: [star] / from BLACK STAR Pan Asia - B.S.Captions: Recto: OKINAWA TRAGEDY: Grief-stricken / parents carry the remains of their / only son, one of the nine school / children killed in the recent jet / crash in Ishikawa, Okinawa, as they / leave for the cemetery for burial. / xxxxxxx Sobbing friends and an / equally sad faced American soldier / share the heart-breaking scene outside / the Miyamori Primary School xxxxxx / xxx xxxxxxxxxx where a joint funeral / service was held for the vistims / on July 3. xxx A pilotless US / jet plane crashed on the school / house on the morning of June 30 / killing nine children and 12 others / and injuring more than 100. It was / xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx one of the / worst disasters on Okinawa since the / war-end. PAN-ASIA PHOTO NEWSVerso: [illeg.]Markings:Recto: OKINAWA TRAGEDY: Grief-stricken / parents carry the remains of their / only son, one of the nine school / children killed in the recent jet / crash in Ishikawa, Okinawa, as they / leave for the cemetery for burial. / xxxxxxx Sobbing friends and an / equally sad faced American soldier / share the heart-breaking scene outside / the Miyamori Primary School xxxxxx / xxx xxxxxxxxxx where a joint funeral / service was held for the vistims / on July 3. xxx A pilotless US / jet plane crashed on the school / house on the morning of June 30 / killing nine children and 12 others / and injuring more than 100. It was / xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx one of the / worst disasters on Okinawa since the / war-end. PAN-ASIA PHOTO NEWSVerso: [illeg.]

Tagasauris Keywords: Automobile; Crowd; Day; Disasters and accidents; Face; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Ishikawa, Okinawa; Male; Male and Female; Mid adult; No Photostyle; Okinawa Prefecture; Outdoors; Panoramic; Primary school; Text; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; Umbrella; Woman
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: OKINAWA / ACCIDENTS
Retouching: N