Marines Land at Washington Monument: Mayday 1971
Marines from the 82nd Airborne land on the grounds of the Washington Monument to reinforce police who are trying to keep the 14th Street Bridge and surrounding streets open to traffic on Monday, May 3, 1971 during Mayday demonstrations.
[Update 2: It appears both the Martine Battery H Third Battalion 10 Marines and the Army 82nd Airbourne were activated that day. However, it seems from two commenters below that the scene pictured is of the Marine unit and not the Army unit.]
[Update: The unit was named in press reports but a commenter notes that it was the Marines' Battery H Third Battalion 10th Marines that landed on that day not the 82nd Airborne Army unit.]
“We scattered into smaller groups. I think they used tear gas too. Some of us headed back toward the [Washington] Monument. We blocked traffic for awhile, then we saw the Hueys land. We figured it was time to move on.” –Marc Miller, May 2013 interview.
The Mayday Tribe, a loose knit group of individuals, collectives and affinity groups, organized an attempt to shut down the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. in protest of the continued war in Indochina May 3-5, 1971 through the use of non violence civil disobedience.
For more information and additional images, see
May 1: flic.kr/s/aHsk5GV1JM
May 2: flic.kr/s/aHsk5CKtKq
May 3: flic.kr/s/aHsk5bjYqk
May 4: flic.kr/s/aHsk64GugT
May 5: flic.kr/s/aHsk8e3sU3
Photo by A J. Smith. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Marines Land at Washington Monument: Mayday 1971
Marines from the 82nd Airborne land on the grounds of the Washington Monument to reinforce police who are trying to keep the 14th Street Bridge and surrounding streets open to traffic on Monday, May 3, 1971 during Mayday demonstrations.
[Update 2: It appears both the Martine Battery H Third Battalion 10 Marines and the Army 82nd Airbourne were activated that day. However, it seems from two commenters below that the scene pictured is of the Marine unit and not the Army unit.]
[Update: The unit was named in press reports but a commenter notes that it was the Marines' Battery H Third Battalion 10th Marines that landed on that day not the 82nd Airborne Army unit.]
“We scattered into smaller groups. I think they used tear gas too. Some of us headed back toward the [Washington] Monument. We blocked traffic for awhile, then we saw the Hueys land. We figured it was time to move on.” –Marc Miller, May 2013 interview.
The Mayday Tribe, a loose knit group of individuals, collectives and affinity groups, organized an attempt to shut down the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. in protest of the continued war in Indochina May 3-5, 1971 through the use of non violence civil disobedience.
For more information and additional images, see
May 1: flic.kr/s/aHsk5GV1JM
May 2: flic.kr/s/aHsk5CKtKq
May 3: flic.kr/s/aHsk5bjYqk
May 4: flic.kr/s/aHsk64GugT
May 5: flic.kr/s/aHsk8e3sU3
Photo by A J. Smith. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.