Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PAN ASIA PHOTO NEWS
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1959-06-30
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.074566

Inscriptions:
PAN-ASIA / PHOTOSCaptions: Verso: MOTHER BURSTS INTO TEARS on the / shoulder of her equally grief-stricken / husband as they identify the body of a / dead child as their son. At least 16 / persons were killed including nine / school children wxx were attending / classes when a US Air Force super sabre / jet crashed into the building on the / morning of June 30. The crash occured / in Ishikawa town [illeg.] about 18 / miles north of the Okinawan capital of / Naha. Fifty homes were burned leaving / some 200 persons homeless. PAN-ASIA / PHOTO NEWS ab eu jp 7//2//59 kh//gsMarkings:Verso: MOTHER BURSTS INTO TEARS on the / shoulder of her equally grief-stricken / husband as they identify the body of a / dead child as their son. At least 16 / persons were killed including nine / school children wxx were attending / classes when a US Air Force super sabre / jet crashed into the building on the / morning of June 30. The crash occured / in Ishikawa town [illeg.] about 18 / miles north of the Okinawan capital of / Naha. Fifty homes were burned leaving / some 200 persons homeless. PAN-ASIA / PHOTO NEWS ab eu jp 7//2//59 kh//gs

Tagasauris Keywords: Asian; Crying; Day; Disasters and accidents; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Indoors; Male; Male and Female; Man; Mother; No Photostyle; Okinawa Prefecture; Panoramic; Shirt; T-shirt; Tears; United States Air Force; United States Air Force; Waist-Up Portrait; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: OKINAWA / ACCIDENTS
Retouching: N