[Info] October 21, 1967 – “Mobe” demo in DC
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on October 23, 2014 11:25 AM in Reflections
October 21, 1967
In Washington, D.C., more than 100,000 demonstrators
from all over the country surrounded the reflecting pool
between the Washington and Lincoln monuments in a
largely peaceful protest to end the Vietnam War.
It was organized by “the Mobe,”
the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
Some then marched on, encircled and attempted to
storm the Pentagon in what some considered
to be civil disobedience; 682 were arrested and dozens injured.
This protest was paralleled by demonstrations in
Japan and Western Europe, the most violent of which occurred
outside the U.S. Embassy in London where 3,000 demonstrators
attempted to storm the building.
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