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Crowd Around the American Comeback Tent

High-angle photograph of a large crowd on tiered grass steps around a white pop-up tent branded American Comeback, with barriers and crew around it

What This Image Shows​

A high-angle photograph taken from an elevated vantage - a balcony or walkway on an adjacent building - looking down at the sunlit gathering. The white pop-up tent branded AMERICAN COMEBACK stands on the lawn at the right, ringed by barriers and crew, with the audience arranged on the concentric grass steps of the amphitheater.

The amphitheater shape is the reason this venue is discussed the way it is. A sunken bowl of terraced grass, ringed by tall concrete buildings, produces both an unusual acoustic environment and a large number of elevated positions with a clean view of the tent.

Both of those features run straight into the disputed questions: how the report of the shot echoed across the courtyard, and how many raised vantages overlooked the platform. See Tent Shooter Theories, Roof and UVU Courtyard.

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