Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last of the marchers moved away from the Common, three buses filled with Boston police pulled out of the road behind the rally speaker's platform and began cruising behind the crowd. Police on motorcycles swept the street ahead of the sound truck, clearing a space in front of the march...
...cops with movie cameras did not even have to leave their offices to add films of subversives to their files. Dong Miranda, an official of the New England Panthers, and Rafael Rodriquez from En la Lambrecha, a Boston Puerto Rican group, had spoken from the roof of the sound truck-the same sound truck in fact, which was leading the march down Beacon...
Hundreds of police and spectators lined Tech Square. Radicals considered M. I. T. a target. police knew. Students in windows gave the marchers the clenched fist; but the marchers shouted back at them angrily. Some taunted the cops and others threw rocks through windows of Tech buildings. The sound truck urges the students to ignore M. I. T. and go to Harvard Square: "We're going to Harvard Square and groove all night." The police made no move to stop the march, and the crowd streamed through the square without pausing...
...sound truck was broadcasting constant warnings: "Don't break windows or we're not going to make it to Harvard Square. The Red Army's going to make it to Harvard Square. The Black Army's going to make it all the way to the Pentagon." Some of the marchers were carrying laundry bags of rocks. Few threw them on Beacon...
...that something was going to happen. Very few of the marchers-perhaps 400 at most-peeled off when the crowded flowed onto the bridge, blocking traffic in the eastbound lane. The Lawyers' Guild representative-exhibiting an icy cool in the midst of the confusion-conferred with the sound truck and then moved ahead of the march to talk to police representatives. He again showed them the permit, which cleared the marchers all the way to Harvard Square. The police cars and cycles began turning around and heading back toward Boston to the applause of marchers-"Little piggy, I think...