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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main action of the story, Saturday in Washington, was covered by a staff of 18. Among the marchers went Washington Correspondents Kenneth Danforth and Jerry Hannifin, as well as a group of specially recruited reporters and photographers. Some wore Levi's and suede boots, to meld more easily with the crowd, and many equipped themselves with goggles when they heard that police might employ Mace spray to check unruly demonstrators. Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken took up his position there, later to be joined by correspondents who had been at the head of the march. Reporters Richard Saltonstall and Donn...
...group's report viewed the main problem in the Square as "through traffic, unrelated to Harvard Square." It said that its proposals for re-designing the MBTA extension up Mass. Ave. would allow a solution of the problem...
...night fell Saturday, the Pentagon looked like a citadel under siege. A yellow fog of smoke and tear gas hung stagnant over the grounds. Soldiers marching in front of the main entrance threw huge, ugly shadows on the thick concrete walls. Across the parking lot reserved for top military brass, down the steps, and sloping out over the rolling wall, demonstrators spilled. Some of them were warming themselves in front of bonfires made with ripped-up placards and sticks. A long line of buses with their headlamps glowing strung-out along the access roads. The air was chilly but still...
Meanwhile, at the main entrance, 500 demonstrators flew at the huge doors. Some got inside the Pentagon and were immediately arrested. MP's and marshals responded toughly. Demonstrators were hauled up and tossed away. Scores were arrested...
...hippies, true to their nature, were only a fringe group by the time the main body of marchers reached the Pentagon. Down in the Parking Lot, away from the action, they were exorcizing the Pentagon, pointing their fingers at the building and chanting "Out Demons Out." It was an incredible circus with the hippies doing their thing, the politicos doing theirs, and, of course, the military doing theirs...