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''Flower Power'' is an historic photograph taken by photographer Bernie Boston for the now-defunct Washington Star. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize.〔Bernie Boston, ("Flower Power" ), ''The Washington Evening Star'', October 21, 1967〕 Taken on October 21, 1967, during a march to the Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a young, long-haired Vietnam protestor in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the barrel of a rifle of a National Guardsman. () When the antiwar demonstrators approached The Pentagon, Boston was sitting on top of a wall of the Mall Entrance of the Pentagon when he saw a lieutenant march a squad of guardsmen into the crowd of demonstrators. The squad then formed a semicircle around the demonstrators, the young man in the photo emerged from the crowd and started placing carnations in the rifles. Boston took it as an opportunity to capture the moment, seeing that “everything came together” and he had a good angle sitting on top of the wall. () When Boston showed the photograph to his editor at the Washington Star, he “didn’t see the importance of the picture” so it was put aside. Instead, Boston started entering it in photography competitions, where it earned its recognition. ==Subject== Many debates have been brought up as to the identity of the young demonstrator placing the carnations in the gun barrels on that day. According to a 2007 Washington Post article by David Montgomery, his name is George Edgerly Harris III. Harris was a young actor from New York, about 18 years old, and on the similar mecca to San Francisco that the hippie movement was famous for. There, he would come out as being gay, change his name to Hibiscus, and was co-founder of the Cockettes, a “flamboyant, psychedelic gay-themed drag troupe.” Harris died in the dawn of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. Other disputes have suggested the protestor is Joel Tornabene, suggested by a Huffington Post article written by Paul Krassner in 2008, right after Bernie Boston’s death. Tornabene was described by Krassner “as an unheralded Yippie organizer known as Super-Joel,” convincing him that his grandfather was Mafia boss Sam Giancana and escaped the wrath of the family business, making means by selling LSD. However, this rumor of the Giancana relation was quickly debunked after his sister Fran wrote to Krassner after the publication of his autobiography ''Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture''. Krassner only became aware of this information after Tornabene’s death in Mexico in 1993. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flower Power (photograph)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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