Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 14-This city is tense as participants and marshals, police and federal troops prepare for Saturday's huge march protesting the War. Rain and hail this afternoon and bitter cold tonight have not prevented traffic from slowing almost to a halt as thousands pull into the District by buses, cars, trains, and thumbs...
Saturday's march begins at 10 a.m. It will proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the edge of the blocked-off area around the White House. It will end at the Washington Monument, where marchers will hear speeches by Ozzie Davis, David Dellinger, Sens. George McGovern (D. S. D.) and Charles Goodell (R. N. Y.), Mrs. Coretta King, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...
...Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, sponsors of the march, issued a position paper today reaffirming the group's intention to keep the march nonviolent. The statement called for an immediate cease-fire followed by removal of all troops and equipment from Vietnam. It expressed solidarity with Black Panther Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and the Chicago Eight...
Police cameramen circulated through the crowd during the rally and march, taking pictures of the protestors. Troops were stationed around the Justice Department building, but there were no incidents of provocation. Organizers with bullhorns cooperated with police in directing the crowd...
...single-file "March of Death" from Arlington Cemetery to the Capitol continued today through a hard rain. More than 100 protestors marched solemnly past the White House each hour, each bearing a placard with the name of a soldier who has died in the War. Over 40,000 have marched in the procession, which ends at dawn Saturday...