The Snapshots in Time Collection

AP Wirephoto "A Flower for the Park": National Guardsmen Behind People's Park Fence, Berkeley, May 1969

AP Wirephoto "A Flower for the Park": National Guardsmen Behind People's Park Fence, Berkeley, May 1969

This AP Wirephoto, titled "A Flower for the Park," captures the tense standoff at Berkeley's People's Park in May 1969. After Governor Reagan ordered the National Guard to enforce the park's closure following the violent "Bloody Thursday" riot, protesters wove flowers into the surrounding fence as a symbol of peaceful resistance — a defining image of 1960s counterculture activism. Project: 218645