This photo, taken on May 4, 1970, won a Pulitzer Prize for a journalism student named John Filo. Today, he is “head of photography for CBS,” according to his Wikipedia biography.
The girl, 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio, was called a “dissident communist” by Claude Kirk, the Republican governor of Florida at the time, for screaming in horror over the dead body of Kent State student Jeffrey Miller. (Source: Wikipedia’s biography of Vecchio.)
The photo became one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam era.
Win a Pulitzer and you can go places. Are you expecting a slew of these kind of photos on state house grounds or todays universities? The Guard is more sensitive and knows these kind of events will impact recruiting and access. So commanders might tell todays Governors no before putting the boys in green on the state house green or campus.