ABSTRACT
Images matter more than words, in the 1970s as well as today. If we consider the radical violence and terrorism from that period, some iconic images for each of the four countries under consideration in this study stand out. The first is a picture taken by John Filo, directly after the Kent State Shootings on May 4, 1970: The photograph of a 14-year-old girl, Mary Ann Vecchio, kneeling by the body of Jeffrey Miller, a student who had been shot by the Ohio National Guards just moments before the picture was taken. This image, of protesting students (three other students died as well that day, several others were wounded) on an average Midwest University Campus, randomly shot down by the National Guard, 1 became a significant moment in the anti-Vietnam movement (see Chapter 4). 2 Bruce Springsteen and others wrote songs about it (‘Where was Jesus in Ohio’), but more important to the objectives of this study, these killings caused the anti-government protests to acquire a much more radical nature. The image of the students’ bodies all over the campus fuelled the Weather Underground's injustice frames that the government now also resorted to terrorism. On 10 May, the Weather Underground bombed the National Guard headquarters in Washington, DC, in retaliation for the Kent State killings. 3
