Contact sheet containing 9 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - rape - Pfc. Richard D. Thomas - Pfc. Curtis Thompson - May / 3 / '69 / pac. NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: ID shots for rape trial - Sheet B: Shots of two convicted rapists--both are circled in red in each frame of the contact sheet. Frame 2: Thompson tries to duck OW photo. Frame 3: Thomas (left) leaves courtroom after being sentenced to 10 years. Frame 5: Thompson (circled in red) ducks behind defense lawyer Berry. Frame 6: Back view of Thompson (l) and Thomas (r) as they try to duck photog. Frame 7: 2 negroes circled in red (l-r) Thompson, Thomas leave courtroom. Frame 8: (l-r) Berry, Thompson (hanging head), Thomas. Frame 9: (l-r) Berry, Thompson (hanging head), Thomas, guard. Frame 10: Circled in red (l-r) Thompson still hangs head, Thomas.
Photographs from this contact sheet accompany story in the Overseas Weekly (Vol. 24, No. 17) issued May 03, 1969. Article titled "Two 'Nam Pfcs Jailed for Rape, Get 10 Years for Assaulting Viet Girl" and appears on page 9. Reported out of Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam. Bottom right most image published with story and captioned "Pfcs Curtis Thompson, Richard Thomas."
