Jimmy Pergola, Irving Smith, Ted Rickman and Mervyn Freeman with his San Francisco colleagues covering various incidents of civil unrest on US soil in the 1930s. All suited up in body armor and/or gas masks to protect themselves from both the public and the police. Neither side had no qualms in firing off a few bullets and tear gas towards the press in an effort to silence their cameras bearing witness to the troubles before them.

Eight decades later, little has changed when it comes to the rights of the press in practice with encounters with law enforcement.