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This year passed like an uneasydream-the bombing of the CFIA, the occupation of 888 Memorial Drive, the disruption of the Teach-In-until the Spring Offensive. Mayday and the JFK Building sit-in came, and some went and took risks and were arrested or clubbed for trying to stop a monstrous war. But most didn't, and most found it hard to understand those who had, because a new fear had crept into all of us, a panic quite unlike the panic of last May, and a lot of us were worrying about it all the time...
There are two other things which need mentioning here. The first is the schizophrenia of the police in Washington (and in Boston last week at the JFK building). For the most part police were open, enjoying conversations with demonstrators and not causing trouble. But suddenly an order would come or an incident would happen, and the nice guy who had been telling you about his wife and children was suddenly beating the shit out of you, and judging by his face, loving every minute...
...remainder of the marchers sat down in the street in front of the JFK main entrance. In addition, demonstrators from the City Hall side of the building joined this group to form briefly a solid semicircle around the front of the building...
...points in the line where Federal employees seeking to go to work attempted to push their way through. When employees encountered resistance or had difficulty passing through the seated demonstrators, police would often seize several protesters in the vicinity, drag them bodily by the hair or clothing into the JFK Building and charge them with disorderly conduct...
...attended the rally heard B. U. Political Science professor Howard Zinn tell police, "It's your sons who are dying in Vietnam." Zinn, one of the few speakers to draw any reaction from the crowd, said he expects to be arrested at today's planned sit-in at the JFK Building in downtown Boston...