Image: Thompson & Whitmire at the sheriff's debate (1970-10-12)

Description: Photograph of two candidates for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, 1970, at the debate held in Snowmass on October 12. "Freak Power" candidate Hunter S. Thompson, at right, regards his opponent, the Democratic candidate and incumbent sheriff Carrol D. Whitmire. Thompson wrote about his campaign in the article "The Battle of Aspen", published in Rolling Stone magazine no. 67 (October 1, 1970); this photo did not run in that article.
Title: Thompson & Whitmire at the sheriff's debate (1970-10-12)
Credit: *Original source: Published on the backside of "Aspen Wall Poster No. 5", a Thompson campaign poster distributed in and around Aspen circa October 1970. Immediate source: Scan via Freak Power page at Facebook. Cropped to include just the photo and retouched by uploader; see upload history below for unretouched original.
Author: Published by the Thompson campaign, printed by Thompson's associate Thomas W. Benton. Photographer uncredited; likely David Hiser, who took other photos for the campaign.
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1926 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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