Vietnam War Peace March, MLK Leads Procession 1967/4/18

Antiwar demonstrators protest in Central Park, march to UN building, included students and hippies and priests and nuns, burn draft cards, shouted confrontations with anti-antiwar marchers, prowar signs, Martin Luther King leads procession; another march in downtown San Francisco down Market Street to stadium, sponsored by loose coalition of left-wing anti-war groups, "President Johnson meanwhile let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity."- violence in Rome in night demonstration near US embassy, water jets used (partial newsreel)

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[j35715]

wainuiboy74 far fewer Americans are protesting against the Iraq war because most of them are not directly affected by it, since there is no longer a military draft.

After Vietnam, wealthy Americans vowed never to allow their sons to be put in harm's way again. So they repealed the military draft and structured the political economy in such a manner that the only viable, legal career option available for its ambitious rural and urban poor is to join the 'all volunteer' Armed Forces.

[junkboxxxxxxxx]

Reminds me of something I went through in Hungary in 1958! Wheww!!

[Justaguywithagame]

history homework

[bee gee]

rich kids that never got drafted in the war, and fonda followers. monkey see, monkey do. they never changed nothing, only costing tax payers money and disrespect our soldiers, families and our country. anti war protesters are traitors. my father was drafted in nam, he didn't asked to be there.

[Rachel B]

I have never heard a news reporter use the term 'beatnicks' before.

[marquettefootball]

I love how the music was the same they used in NFL Films at the time.

[dv3709]

It's interesting to see how these peaceful citizens were viewed and treated by the media and the government. 40 some years later, we are doing a lot of business with the forgiving Vietnamese.

[Frogstomp121]

Some are, but the ones that go against the grain are labelled anti-democratic or anti-American. They are labelled as people opposed to freedom.

The truth is anyone who goes to war or advocates war is against freedom. Anyone who is willing to kill or advocate killing of any human life is spreading hate and violence.

[jamo197]

there aren't that many people that still support it. The reason we don't see this type of stuff today is because of a difference in culture, the way we think. Free rights movements were just being implemented back then today we don't see it as a big change, kinda a been there dine that thing.

[wainuiboy74]

why arnt americans protesting hard about the iraq war?