11/15/1969: Second Vietnam Moratorium Protest
During the Fall of 1969 a coordinated campaign of anti Vietnam War protests was held across the U.S. The largest were the nation-wide Moratorium Against the Vietnam War on October 15th, and a second Moratorium on November 15th, preceded by the March Against Death on November 13th. The second Moratorium crowded over half-a-million demonstrators around [...]
11/13/1969: March Against Death
The March Against Death was conducted over thirty-six hours in Washington D.C. on November 13th-15th 1969, as part of a nationwide campaign of protests conducted in the Fall of 1969. Starting at midnight on Thursday November 13th, a solemn procession of some 45,000 marched single-file from the Arlington National Cemetery, past the White House to [...]
11/12/1969: Story Breaks of My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre took place on March 16th 1968, when a unit of U.S. infantry massacred an entire village of over 300 civilians including men, women and children in a collection of hamlets in South Vietnam. Although this atrocity had occurred in March 1968, it took 20 months for the story to reach the [...]
11/03/1969: Nixon’s “Silent Majority” Speech
President Richard Nixon had won the 1968 Presidential election on a campaign that included promises to end the Vietnam War. For example, his campaign aired a TV commercial stating: “Never has so much power been used so ineffectively as in Vietnam. If after all of this time and all of this sacrifice and all of [...]
10/15/1969: National Moratorium Anti Vietnam War Demonstrations
An estimated one million demonstrators participated in “Vietnam Moratorium” anti-war protest rallies, meetings, seminars and church services across the US. The Moratorium was the first time the middle-aged and many others protested in large numbers, signifying that anti-war sentiment wasn’t just a youth culture quirk. 50 members of congress participated. The largest protest was at Boston [...]