Bill Hudson (photographer)

Police dog attack in Birmingham, 1963 On 3 May 1963 the Associated Press photographer Bill Hudson caught a police officer holding a Black teenager by his sweater while a German shepherd lunged at him during the Birmingham campaign. The next morning it ran above the fold across three columns of The New York Times front page. President Kennedy reportedly said the picture made him sick, and spoke of scenes reported more eloquently by the news camera than by any number of words. The details are less settled than the image: the boy is usually named as Walter Gadsden, his age is given as 15 or 17, and some have argued he was bracing his knee against the dog rather than standing passive.