Mary Ann Vecchio

Mary Ann Vecchio
Mary Ann Vecchio speaking at Kent State University in May 2009
Born (1955-12-04) December 4, 1955 (age 68)
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
NationalityItalian-American
Known forSubject of 1970 Kent State shootings photograph

Mary Ann Vecchio (born December 4, 1955) is an Italian American respiratory therapist and one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

The photograph depicts the 14-year-old Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller, who had been fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard moments earlier. Vecchio had joined the protest while visiting the campus, where she befriended two of the other students who would be hit by gunfire that day: Sandra Scheuer, who was killed, and Alan Canfora, who was wounded in the right wrist.[1]

  1. ^ "Kent State Protester Is Recalled From Ohio Council". The New York Times. 1977-10-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-18.