Officer Peters looks over damage after a homemade bomb ripped the doors and windows out of the print shop and journalism building at Roosevelt High School. Police said the device was a strong explosive but did little damage because it was poorly planted. Evening classes were in session when the bomb exploded, but no one was reported injured. Photograph dated September 29, 1970.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 21 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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