Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo showing six-year-old Lloyd Smith recovering from a gunshot wound as his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Smith, keep watch near Rome, Georgia. The AP caption reports that tenant farmer Homer Shedd shot his estranged wife and two children before being killed by a state trooper; the baby was fatally wounded. The separate caption and photograph are mounted together on black archival paper. Overall size is approximately 6⅞ x 6⅜ inches. Vintage corner tape, surface wear, and age-related handling are visible. From the archive of a Pittsburgh-area newspaper.
