Fact sheet for March on the Pentagon: 1967
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam publishes this two-sided fact sheet for the national march on the Pentagon to be held October 21, 1967 that includes a list of speakers and contingents.
The march was the largest anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Washington, D.C. up until that point in time, drawing about 100,000 people, including liberals, Poet Allen Ginsburg leading an attempted levitation of the Pentagon, Progressive Labor Party charging the doors and briefly breaching them, pacifists conducting a sit-in, Yippies and others conducting a “piss-in,” along with dozens of other stripes of the peace movement.
It came during the time when Gen. William Westmoreland, who already commanded over 500,000 troops in Vietnam, requested 200,000 more. The rising antiwar movement and the stubbornness of the North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front resistance convinced President t Lyndon Johnson to refuse the request and ultimately decide not to seek re-election.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11 two-sided flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1967-1...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk5q4pim
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
Fact sheet for March on the Pentagon: 1967
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam publishes this two-sided fact sheet for the national march on the Pentagon to be held October 21, 1967 that includes a list of speakers and contingents.
The march was the largest anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Washington, D.C. up until that point in time, drawing about 100,000 people, including liberals, Poet Allen Ginsburg leading an attempted levitation of the Pentagon, Progressive Labor Party charging the doors and briefly breaching them, pacifists conducting a sit-in, Yippies and others conducting a “piss-in,” along with dozens of other stripes of the peace movement.
It came during the time when Gen. William Westmoreland, who already commanded over 500,000 troops in Vietnam, requested 200,000 more. The rising antiwar movement and the stubbornness of the North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front resistance convinced President t Lyndon Johnson to refuse the request and ultimately decide not to seek re-election.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11 two-sided flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1967-1...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk5q4pim
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson