Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Race Street, Cambridge's black-white dividing line, a row of Guardsmen, bayonets fixed on their empty rifles, blocked the marchers' way. "Stop this and take them back!" Brigadier General George Gelston, commander of the Guard unit, yelled through a bullhorn to Gloria Richardson. The Wallace meeting, he told them, "is a complete flop. Don't ruin your chances by going over there. It's only half full." A bottle arced out of the darkness and smashed on Gelston's Jeep. Rocks were thrown at the Guardsmen, striking some. At length, Gloria persuaded the grumbling...
...their skin." Surprisingly, the audience applauded; some even cheered. Cried Lyndon: "I love the people of Georgia." Hundreds of thousands lined the streets to see the President's motorcade pass by, and he stopped no fewer than eight times to talk to them through a brand-new bullhorn. Later, it was back to Washington...
...Johnson all but took flight in his exuberance. Again and again he ordered his car to stop so that he could climb out and shake hands. People surged into the street. The President's right hand began to bleed, but he kept on shaking. Once he snatched a bullhorn from a cop and bellowed to the delighted crowd, "The one good thing about America is that our ambitions are not too large! They boil down to food, shelter and clothing...
...caravan inched along. Cops' motorcycles overheated. Lyndon leaped up on the Secret Service's open car. He pulled Lady Bird up with him and cried to the multitude, "Meet the lady of my life!" Again, in front of Holy Angels parish school, he grabbed a bullhorn and, paraphrasing John Kennedy, he shouted to a cluster of kids: "Ask not what we can do for you, but what you can do for your country...
...other cities. In Washington, a crowd of 3,000 Negroes marched to Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department. When he came outside to speak to them, a Negro spokesman complained to him that "We haven't seen many Negroes coming out of the Justice department." Kennedy, using a bullhorn, replied that "individuals will be hired on their ability...