Viet Nam protests in the 1960s

[FogerRox]

AWshington DC Febuary 15th, 1969

Announcer at Woodstock: Ladies and gentlemen...
Country Joe...McDonald....

Oh, come on all of you big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again,
Got himself in a terrible jam,
Way down yonder in Vietnam,
Put down your books, pick up a gun,
We’re gonna have a whole lot of fun,

And it’s one, two three, what are we fightin for,
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn, next stop is Vietnam.

Whoopee! We’re all gonna die.

[BlueJac]

1. Be the first one on your block to come home in a box..........

I remember all to well.

[ET Awful]

5. That's "to have your boy come home in a box."

:)

[BlueJac]

6. :)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. And the 70s

I remember the student strikes after Kent State.

And how about the Cooper-Church Amendment to end the war? I was a "townie" and was sent into the wilds of Urbana Illinois to get signatures for the petition.

[TahitiNut]

3. Febuary 15th, 1969?

(Hmmm...) The day after Valentine's Day. I was munching on homemade peanut butter cookies. I'd been in-country for 6 weeks and probably taken cover behind sandbags during incoming rocket/mortar attacks about five or six times by then. (January was slow.) About a week later, I became a 'veteran' - changed forever.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates

Ain't no time to wonder why

Whoopee we're all gonna die.

[Faygo Kid]

7. There ain't no time, to wonder why, Whoopee! We're all gonna die.

Was there, am now officially Old, wish these smug little Millenials had some guts. At least the Xers had, and have, that.

[Melinda]

8. April 23, 1968: Students takeover the administration buildings of Columbia

April 23, 1968: Students takeover the administration buildings of Columbia University in response to a number of grievances, including the University's plans to build a gym in the adjoining African American community, and the University's continuing ties to the Institute for Defense Analysis. The takeover is spearheaded by the Columbia chapter of SDS, headed by Mark Rudd. Five buildings are occupied by 1,000 students, African American students holding one building, white students in the others. After eight days the administration calls in the police and there are mass arrests and police beatings of protesters. A month-long student strike followed.

Seven Minute RealPlayer Video

[H2O Man]

11. "The Strawberry Statement"

James Simon Kunen's "notes of a college revolutionary" remains one of the classic books from that era.

[skooooo]

9. Vietnam protests

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[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Tehy were focused and they had great musing to them

Oh and in the very early deays they were not covered by major media either... it took a while

[skooooo]

12. Central Park anti-war demonstration 1967...also SF...clip of MLK

A protest in Rome turns violent...

Good history of the anti-war movement.


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