File:Fred Hampton murder scene bedroom bloody mattress.jpg
Fred_Hampton_murder_scene_bedroom_bloody_mattress.jpg (256 × 388 pixels, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary[edit]
| Description |
Photograph of the apartment of Fred Hampton, after the raid where he was killed by members of the Chicago Police Department. Photo shows large amount of blood on the bed that he was lying in when he was initially shot, and numerous bullet holes in the walls of the room. |
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| Source |
Chicago Reader -- link:[1] |
| Author | Paul Sequeira |
| Portion used |
Image has been slightly reduced in scale. |
| Low resolution? |
No. Reducing resolution would reduce educational value. |
| Other information |
(1) The work has significant educational and public value, and will be used for non-profit educational purposes. This image is of extreme historical significance. (2) Putting it on Wikipedia would not interfere with commercial opportunities, since the image is already posted up all over the Internet, as one can see from a Google image search. |
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| Purpose of use |
The inclusion of the image would significantly increase reader's understanding of the subject, illustrating for example that he was shot while lying in bed, and they can see the large number of bullet holes in the walls of the room, demonstrating the large volume of gunfire that took place during the raid. |
| Replaceable? |
There are no free images that are even close to equivalent. This is the only photo of the murder scene. |
Licensing[edit]
 | This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). |
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| current | 22:19, 1 November 2017 | | 256 × 388 (23 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
| 10:31, 12 August 2011 | No thumbnail | 324 × 492 (42 KB) | DASHBot (talk | contribs) | Bot: Rescaling Fair Use Image (shutoff) |
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