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Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971
Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971
Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971

Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971

Maker
Date9/1/1971
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions7 x 8-5/8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.248
Status
Not on view
A little girl, known only as Thanh, sits on her hospital cot in a ward of a hospital at Quang Tri, South Vietnam. A Viet Cong mortar, fired into her house on the outskirts of the city, killed her parents and wounded her two sisters. She lost part of her forearm, but walked unaided to the hospital for treatment
A little girl, known only as Thanh, sits on her hospital cot in a ward of a hospital at Quang Tri, South Vietnam. A Viet Cong mortar, fired into her house on the outskirts of the city, killed her parents and wounded her two sisters. She lost part of her forearm, but walked unaided to the hospital for treatment
Unknown Artist
1967
Untitled [She was born in June and she was beautiful.]
Untitled [She was born in June and she was beautiful.]
Ben Shahn
1948
Negroes Arrested in New Outbreak: two negroes are marched at gunpoint to a police bus after their arrest near a Black Muslim Mosque in the Los Angeles district early today. The mosque was the scene of a gunfight with police who said Negroes were taking guns into the temple, August 18, 1965
Negroes Arrested in New Outbreak: two negroes are marched at gunpoint to a police bus after their arrest near a Black Muslim Mosque in the Los Angeles district early today. The mosque was the scene of a gunfight with police who said Negroes were taking guns into the temple, August 18, 1965
Unknown Artist
8/18/1965
Image Not Available for Constantinian Commemorative Coin: Helmeted Bust of Roma (obverse), She Wolf Nursing the Twins Romulus and Remus (reverse)
Constantinian Commemorative Coin: Helmeted Bust of Roma (obverse), She Wolf Nursing the Twins Romulus and Remus (reverse)
Unknown Artist
circa 295
Image Not Available for Sie: Geliebter, schau wie die Lerchen steigen! Er: Jotte doch, und ick hab' keene jekooft! (She: Look sweetheart, how the larks are soaring! He: Damn, and I didn't buy any!)
Sie: Geliebter, schau wie die Lerchen steigen! Er: Jotte doch, und ick hab' keene jekooft! (She: Look sweetheart, how the larks are soaring! He: Damn, and I didn't buy any!)
Rafaello Busoni
1923
She is Roses
She is Roses
Mark Turbyfill
1963
...So Then She Sez...
...So Then She Sez...
Gladys Nilsson
1993
Image Not Available for She Wolf
She Wolf
Frank Vavruska
1947
She was Impressive
She was Impressive
Karl Wirsum
1980
She was Impressive
She was Impressive
Karl Wirsum
1980
She was Impressive
She was Impressive
Karl Wirsum
1980
Untitled [...and Velvena was playing at studying though she was only four.]
Untitled [...and Velvena was playing at studying though she was only four.]
Ben Shahn
1948