Word: vietnam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campus-wide assembly at the University of Pennsylvania, called by the Provost of the University, was attended by 2500 students and faculty, who called for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Vietnam. The assembly was followed by a march to the J.F.K. Plaza in downtown Philadelphia, where 50,000 gathered. Noam Chomsky was the principle speaker...
Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan and on leave from Harvard, spoke at Belmont High School and urged a two-year, two-stage withdrawal from Vietnam...
...least a million Americans joined yesterday in the largest anti-war demonstration in the nation's history. From Boston to Berkeley the Moratorium supporters heard speeches, conducted marches, and held silent vigils demanding an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam...
...Vietnam 15 of those fighting men wore black armbands to protest the war while on patrol in a battle zone...
...England the pattern was similar to-if more intense than-the rest of the nation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) told a World Affairs Council meeting in Boston that the United States should "announce a firm schedule for withdrawing all its troops from Vietnam as a step towards a political settlement...