Washington, DC in late April 1971 - - how many of you old timers remember?

[Elwood P Dowd]

200,000 people demonstrating against the Vietnam War in the last great turnout. I was stationed there in the Army but made it to the Saturday and Sunday events. The cops started busting heads early Monday morning, and the 82d Airborn was all over the place. You wouldn't believe how many Army guys like me were there Saturday. We stuck out like sore thumbs with no hair, but we were welcomed by one and all.

Any of you older DUers remember that weekend, especially the musical groups that were there Saturday and Sunday?

[Historic NY]

1. I remember the TEE-VEE images.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I couldn't go, but some friends did, and I remember the news coverage very clearly.

The news media actually covered stuff like that in those days.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. i was there

also stationed there at the time. we slept on the mall saturday night.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. I slept in a sleeping bag near the Washington Monument.

Drank cheap wine, ate junk food, and smoked you know what. That's probably why I can't remember the musical groups that performed that weekend.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11. that's where we slept, too.

i don't remember who played either. but it was rockin'.

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. Are you the one who stole my "legal" cigarettes?

Had to pay some guy two bucks for another pack the next morning. I think cigs cost about 20 cents a pack in the PX back then.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. no, it wasn't me.

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. I was kidding, as you probably know.

I hope someone can refresh my 61-year-old memory about the musical groups at the Washington Monument.

[Fozzledick]

28. I think I remember the Beach Boys...

[JohnnyLib2]

4. I was at Ft. Knox.

Cheering you on.

The deja vu since 2003 has been dreadful, eh?

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Did you ever march up misery and agony?

I was there in the fall of 1970.

[JohnnyLib2]

8. No--soft meddac job.

But m. and a. are still talked about.

[Ilsa]

7. I was in Junior high school, watching it on the news. nt

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Wasn't that when Kerry and others threw the medals?

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. I think he threw his ribbons,

and not the actual medals. But yes, that was the week Kerry testified before Congress. I might have met him, but there were so many Vets there you never knew who you were talking to most of the time.

[flyarm]

10. I was there! I was right next to the Washington Monument..with my best friend..

It was peaceful where I was..but i heard of many people harassed by police.
Lots of people singing peace songs..where I was at.

fly

[Luminous Animal]

14. I was 12 years old and already politically active.

My 16 year old aunt and a few of her dirty fucking hippy friends took me. I hung onto all the fliers and newsletters that I gathered for a couple of decades after that, but, alas, I lost all of them between one move or another.

[MADem]

15. I remember the weekend, I wasn't in DC at the time. It was the Topic Du Jour, though! nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

18. In DC in late JANUARY 1971....

I was born! :party:

[Kip Humphrey]

19. I remember very well...

I worked setting up a triage, clinic at the American University All Faith Center. That Wednesday night before the demonstrations, I met and had a 5-hour tete-a-tete conversation (and, some of the time, impassioned debate), with John Kerry. He came to AU for an emergency organizers' meeting called at the last minute over the Yippies' announced intention to block Dupont Circle starting Friday by setting trash cans alight in the streets. We hastily arranged a meeting room out of our just completed examining room/clinic staff area. John arrived with a buddy (Vet) in a baby blue Dodge Dart 4-door sedan. They had borrowed the car from the Nuns at Catholic University. It was hysterical seeing these 2 Vets extracting themselves from that compact size baby blue Nun's sedan! Twenty minutes later, the Black Panthers arrived and unceremoniously evicted me and my college friends from the meeting room and the building for the duration of the meeting.

[PufPuf23]

20. San Francisco

not on topic edit

[Elwood P Dowd]

23. Damn, I was reading your post about PG and Fillmore

and took a phone call. Hit refresh, and your message was gone. I still have some Fillmore LPs.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

24. There was a huge turn-out in SF. I was a young-un & I was there & the Filmore West in the evening.

Such a huge turn-out. I smuggled in a bottle of wine to the Filmore West by putting it under my clothes and pretending I was pregnant. What memories.

[seemslikeadream]

21. I was there

also 1970 Mother's Day weekend I believe, I think I remember calling my mom


My first masing, yes I was a virgin

[lpbk2713]

22. So there I was watching Uncle Walter's evening news ...

... when they cut to an interview with a 'protestor'. I almost fell out of my chair. It was a Navy buddy of mine that I thought I had seen the last of two years earlier. I'd like to look him up just to let him know I saw the interview.

[lucretia54]

25. That was the time we had to run to the bus

because they started teargassing...terrible dirty 16 year old hippies that we were!

I can't remember the music either!

"The Dead" are on Letterman now as I type- pretty good.

[glitch]

26. This politically alert 14 year old had to watch it on the teevee.

Back when teevee had stuff worth watching. I don't remember the musical groups though, only impressions of the emotions of the speakers.

But I am still an old-timer, my bones tell me so.

[prairierose]

27. I wasn't there..I was still in high school but...

I sure was following the news. I look back and marvel that actual news was covered then and there were no celebrity scandals du jour. I miss real news, real world news.

[starroute]

29. I've found mentions online of Country Joe and Peter, Paul & Mary

Somehow I don't recall that one myself -- maybe it was during the period when our tv had died. But it sounds like pretty much the usual suspects were around.

[OneBlueSky]

30. yeah, I was there . . .

I was working for a very liberal Member of Congress at the time, and as recall we camped out in his office for a couple of days . . . also recall hooking up with old friend Pete Seeger at some point and marching with him, but more specific memories are a bit hazy after all these years . . .

I DO recall chanting "More pay for police!" when we marched past D.C. cops, frequently eliciting some smiles from the boys in blue . . .

[roguevalley]

31. I remember. Was in Oregon at the time but I remember it all. :)

[Vidar]

32. Watched it on TV. Was just starting High School.