Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the viewpoint of the anti-war movement, the march was a success for two reasons. It confronted the first major fund-raising dinner of the 1968 campaign with a disruptive mass protest, setting the trend for protest activity throughout the campaign. Also, it marked the first time white liberals in the peace movement experienced the police brutality formerly reserved for civil rights demonstrators in the South. For most, it was a radicalizing experience...
...estimated 10,000 to 25,000 persons gathered in Los Angeles on June 23 to carry the Vietnam War protest to President Johnson's dinner table...
...most Southern Californians could not avoid a confrontation so easily. June 23 was a day of protest. Pages 21, 22, 23 of the Los Angeles Times were covered with the names of 8,000 "Dissenting Democrats," enlisted by actor Robert Vaughn...
...scene at Harvard is that, by and large, the administrators and school officials are both intelligent and liberal. Although at first glance this might appear an asset which would allow a strong hippie element to emerge, in the final analysis Harvard's liberalism takes the wind out of potential protest issues. For instance how can you stage a "sleep-in" when parietals are constantly being liberalized. Last year proved that University officials are not apt to make any of the same kind of disasterous mistakes that Kerr made in Berkeley. During the McNamara demonstration Dean Monro was enlightened enough...
...deadpan, we're-here-on-the-scene reporting would send the public into the streets screaming as did the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Charged Director Peter Watkins, "The BBC was really afraid that the truth about the effects of nuclear war would result in a massive protest to ban the bomb...