Taken during an organized march at the Pentagon to protest the United States’ role in the Vietnam War, the pic shows then 17-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir calmly holding a chrysanthemum while standing before a line of soldiers armed with bayonets.
No, as Charpentier told TMZ, it was actually a callback to the 1967 image titled The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet, the iconic photograph taken by photographer Marc Riboud.
According to the director of photography for the Pepsi commercial, Bjorn Charpentier, the big climax in the ad between Kendall Jenner and the cop does indeed hearken back to a protest picture, but definitely not one from recent years.