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November 15 (1969)

1969 · Short film · 7 min

  • War

Synopsis

This silent, raw footage shows some of the events of November 15, 1969 as 250,000-300,000 protestors gathered to rally against the Vietnam War. It was the largest group of demonstrators to appear in the District of Columbia since the civil rights throngs of 1963. The New York Times reported the day's events this way: "A vast throng of Americans, predominantly youthful and constituting the largest mass march in the nation's capital, demonstrated peacefully in the heart of the city today,…

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