1961 Press Photo Tunisian National Guardsmen guard a roadblock, Tunisia

Violence in Tunisia has brought out national guardsmen, who, like this soldier, guard barriers in scattered areas where trouble between Tunisian and French troops has erupted. The sign indicated that the barrier was about 28 miles from Tunis, where a screaming mob had smashed windows in the United States information agency library, hurled rocks and besieged the gates of the French embassy in protest of French military actions. Tunisia-Defense-Army

Photo is dated 1961.

Photo measures 10 x 7.25 inches.