Occupation of the President's Office at Columbia University

Student David Shapiro during the occupation.  Photo:  Tom Hurwitz 

The story behind an iconic image of the Columbia Protests featured 21 year-old student, David Shapiro, who was near graduation on a poetry fellowship.  The photographer was claimed to be Tom Hurwitz, using the camera of a free-lance photographer that had been handed through the open window.

Sources:

Former WPU professor was the face of the 1968 Columbia University uprising, By Mike Kelly,  NorthJersey.com (28 Apr 1968)

“The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising, by Clara Bingham, in The Hive, Vanity Fair Magazine (26 Mar 1968)