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...Washington, congressional staff members planned a noontime vigil on the Capitol steps; employees of more than 20 federal agencies planned ceremonies at their offices. Senator Frank Church of Idaho was scheduled to address a Peace Corps rally, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota to appear at an American University teach-in. Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. planned to lead a candlelight procession from the Washington Monument to the White House gates...
Hundreds of candles flickered on the Cambridge Common last night as more than 1000 people participated in a vigil calling for an end to the Vietnam...
Preceding the end of the hour-long vigil, Elmer H. Brown of the Cambridge Friends Meeting asked the crowd to extinguish their candles in the ground and stand for a brief silent vigil. As the smoke rose into the air, Bishop Thomas J. Riley gave the benediction...
Before the vigil, services for peace were offered in all the Cambridge Churches and at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel House. Some of the churches-including the Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, the First Congregational Church, and the First Church of Christ, Scientists-were filled completely for the services...
After the services, the worshippers walked in a procession to the vigil, which was held on the baseball diamond in the Common. The first arrivals sang folk songs as they waited for the vigil to begin...