Word: gatheredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Get Hoffman. Some 400 Weathermen and hangers-on gathered in Lincoln Park at evening, eager for a confrontation. Fueling a bonfire with park benches, they listened to obscenity-laced speeches until their own "riot squad" of 100 helmeted members arrived. Many of them carried clubs. Then, as a bearded speaker...
At Yale, an unexpected 50,000 gathered at noon at the New Haven Green to hear speeches by Rep. Allard Lowenstein (D.N.Y.); Rev. Joseph Duffy, president of the A.D.A.; New Haven Mayor Richard C. Lee, former Secretary of Interior Stuart Udall, who is currently professor at the Yale Forestry School...
A campus-wide assembly at the University of Pennsylvania, called by the Provost of the University, was attended by 2500 students and faculty, who called for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Vietnam. The assembly was followed by a march to the J.F.K. Plaza in downtown Philadelphia, where 50...
Elsewhere in New England, 4000 gathered in Burlington. Vt., to hear former Governor Philip H. Hoff and Lt. Gov. Thomas Hayes denounce the war. The two men also made speeches at Bennington College.
In Berkeley, California, many Morator-ium events were rained out. But a crowd of 5,000 gathered in front of the main entrance to the university to pass out pamphlets urging students not to attend classes. Class attendance was down by 60 percent according to the Berkeley's Daily Cal...