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1965 Aug. 14.
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  1. California
  2. Los Angeles
  3. Machine Guns
  4. National Guard
  5. People
  6. Photographic Prints
  7. Race Riots
  8. Transmitted Images
  9. Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965

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