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ANTI-WAR PROTESTS (VIETNAM) - PART TWO

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Title: ANTI-WAR PROTESTS (VIETNAM) - PART TWO
File Number: ACL-3021 Digibeta; Beta SP
Color: B W, Color
Type: Compilation
Year: 1960s
Description: 3021-1 01:00:00:00 -- 01:02:27:10 1968 B W Silent BANNER, GRAFITTI VS walls of New York City buildings covered with painted peace signs, anti-war, hippie and anti-establishment graffiti slogans, New York City. ZO "Hell no we won't go," "Resist, "Make Love Not War," etc. Canted shot of man walking past graffiti wall w peace message, car parking. PDA (8027) 3021-2 01:02:27:11 -- 01:02:34:04 1970s Color Silent BANNERS AND PLACARDS Young men & women hold anti-Vietnam War press conference on steps of Capitol Building, Washington, DC. They hold sign placards reading "De-Fuse Nixon" and "Declaring War is Nixon's Way of Ending War" HDN (8046) 3021-3 01:02:34:05 -- 01:02:38:14 1972 Color Silent BANNER People hold banner at anti-Vietnam War protest with handwritten "People's Peace Treaty," Washington DC. HDN (8046) 3021-4 01:02:38:15 -- 01:02:41:10 1968 Color w Sound BURNING DRAFT CARDS Audio: instrumental music. LA male & female demonstrators hold lit matches, burning their draft cards. DN (8024) 3021-5 01:02:41:11 -- 01:04:57:10 ca. 1969 B W w Sound DRAFT RESISTERS Excellent VS Draft protest in rain by Army Personnel Center, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City. Young man (Peter Behr) in hooded sweatshirt stands with girl beneath umbrella, burning his induction notice as young protesters cheer. They urge people to clear the street. VS protesters carry picket signs. Bus carrying recruits to personnel center. Man w flowers hands flyer to MP. Bus enters gate of center. Interview w Peter Behr, draft resister. Chose not to defer but to protest because of class, economic bias in system. PDA (8027) 3021-6 01:04:57:11 -- 01:05:28:21 ca. 1969 B W w Sound DRAFT RESISTERS Excellent VS Draft protest in rain by Army Personnel Center, Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City. Woman removes flowers from trunk of station wagon. Hippy student street theater, shooting fake cap gun at "gooks." Bearded protester dressed as 'Viet Cong' walks w arms raised in front of policeman at Center gate. Student reporters ask questions. ZO Demonstrators give peace signs to passing traffic. PDA (8027) 3021-7 01:05:28:22 -- 01:08:13:14 1960s B W w Sound DRAFT RESISTERS Excellent VS anti-Vietnam War protest, Central Park, New York City. Procession of male draftees on stage, dropping their draft notices in collection box as protest, speaking into microphone giving their names & home towns, sometimes views. One bearded man says "I'll introduce myself when I'm turning in my delinquency notice." PAN crowds seated on benches. Another man says "Viet Cong resistance makes our resistance possible." PDA (8027) 3021-8 01:08:13:15 -- 01:08:39:23 1960s B W w Sound DRAFT RESISTERS VS American folk singer Joan Baez performs at anti-Vietnam War rally in Central Park, New York City. She plays acoustic guitar, sings "Carry On" & says "Sock it to 'em brothers" at end of song (brief shot of crowd). PDA (8027) 3021-9 01:08:39:24 -- 01:09:24:29 1968 B W Silent DRAFT RESISTERS Anti-Vietnam War resistance activists' table on New York City sidewalk - ZO "Refuse the Draft!" poster. Young man & woman sit at table. Leaflets & flyers for "Resistance strategy." (looks like 6th Avenue, Avenue of the Americas) PDA (8027) 3021-10 01:09:25:00 -- 01:19:52:25 1968 B W w Sound DRAFT RESISTERS Summer of '68 Anti-Vietnam War groups. Boston Draft Resistance Group. VS draft resistance organizers speaking to men in draft boards with VO activists talking about experiences, rhetoric- being "screwed by the system"- capitalism. Activist speaking to draftees, calling Selective Service unconstitutional. Men boarding chartered buses. Vietnam veterans making anti-war newspaper in print shop w copier, mimeograph. Activists on phone, planning publicity strategy for picking up released POW's in Hanoi. VS stills of activists in Vietnam. Meeting released POW's at airport. Press conference w mass media. VO media mind control, "spin." Classroom meeting. PYN (8083) 3021-11 01:19:52:26 -- 01:20:11:17 ca 1964 B W w Sound PROTEST - MARCH VS Anti-Vietnam War protest New York City, CU anti-draft protesters in New York chant "Peace now!" CU male protester. VO male narrator talks about First Amendment. EBC (8028) 3021-12 01:20:11:18 -- 01:20:33:24 1960s B W w Sound PROTEST Protest w anti-Ford, GM signs. PAN Soldiers w rifles on guard. Group of anti-war protesters sit with arms raised in air giving peace sign - very brief shot of soldier in jeep giving peace sign. Good VO Black National Guard member (not seen). "People are beginning to understand they have a right for government to serve them, and when it doesn't do so, they have a right to do something about it. When they do... that's when they call us in to be the cops- to put our brothers down." PYN (8083) 3021-13 01:20:33:25 -- 01:20:51:19 ca 1968 Color w Sound PROTEST - MARCH VS Anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington DC during LBJ administration with riot police. Demonstrators challenge police. Cops arresting protesters w hands behind back. VO Spanish narrator. EBC (8028) 3021-14 01:20:51:20 -- 01:21:00:29 1970s (?) Color w Sound PROTEST Anti-Vietnam War protest. "Stop Nixon Now," other posters for peace. Woman gives peace sign. VO Spanish narrator. EBC (8028) 3021-15 01:21:01:00 -- 01:22:51:19 1960s B W w Sound PROTEST - GREENWICH VILLAGE Anti-war demonstration in Washington Square Park, New York City. Police stand guard by 5th Ave. arch. Shaky handheld CAM crowd assembles for march. CU activist leader Abbie Hoffman in crowd. VO activist veteran describes various groups present, including plainclothes police. Banner sign "Big Firms Get Richer, GI's die!" VS plainclothes police laugh. Crowds begin to march. Police vans. PDA (8027) 3021-16 01:22:51:20 -- 01:23:21:15 1960s B W w Sound PROTEST - GREENWICH VILLAGE Anti-Vietnam War demonstration New York City. VS protesters wearing helmets w peace signs, logos, graffiti. VO interview with female planner of protest- told women to remove earrings so that police wouldn't pull them off through people's ears. Bearded man in helmet w hammer & sickle Communist insignia drinks from can w cigarette in hand. Mounted police on horseback. PDA (8027) 3021-17 01:23:21:16 -- 01:25:11:06 1960s B W w Sound PROTEST - GREENWICH VILLAGE Anti-Vietnam War demonstration Washington Square Park, New York City. Police patrol on horseback.- PAN park with demonstrators. Elderly angry policeman walks w megaphone, banners, chants. Chaotic handheld CAM- crowd whistling, running, screaming during clash w police. Arrested man led away in handcuffs. Crowd is told to disperse. PDA (8027) 3021-18 01:25:11:07 -- 01:25:46:27 1968 B W Silent PROTEST - GREENWICH VILLAGE Young women talking, reading flyers at Anti-Vietnam War protest Washington Square Park, New York City. CU sticker on man's jacket "Stop the war madness now" CU lapel button on young woman's overcoat- "Support our boys in Vietnam." PDA (8027) 3021-19 01:25:46:28 -- 01:26:00:09 1968 B W Silent PROTEST - GREENWICH VILLAGE ZI newspaper in wire trash can in Washington Square Park, New York City. Worker's World socialist newspaper- "Don't fall for the Johnston-Kennedy-McCarthy Peace Fraud." PDA (8027) 3021-20 01:26:00:10 -- 01:26:16:26 1960s B W w Sound PROTEST - MARCH Grainy B W VS anti-war posters, marchers, demonstrators at Anti-Vietnam War protests. Audio: Singer Country Joe McDonald introduces "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag." GMP (8109) 3021-21 01:26:16:27 -- 01:26:36:20 1960s Color Silent PROTEST - MARCH Small anti-Vietnam War sidewalk protest march - mostly White protesters carry placards "Peace is Thrifty" "What was the plan Dick?" Rear view of protest with signs "Why Have they Died?" "Old Men Decide, Young Men Die" PET (8078) 3021-22 01:26:36:21 -- 01:29:31:12 1968 1969 B W w Sound PROTEST - MARCH VS Anti-Vietnam peace protests (Chicago, Washington DC) and police brutality - riots. Lots of Vietnamese flags. Music: "Monster" by Steppenwolf as soundtrack. Chicago police beating demonstrators, using tear gas in crowds. Crowds have violent clashes w police. Police punch & drag young man off monument. Young protesters running arm-in-arm. PYN (8083) 3021-23 01:29:31:13 -- 01:29:50:10 1969 B W w Sound PROTEST - MARCH VS anti-war protest march, banners, New York City. Audio: drumming. Marchers carry American flag, resistance banner, Vietnam GI flyers. Reservists & war veterans carry Anti-Vietnam War banner. PYN (8083) 3021-24 01:29:50:11 -- 01:30:04:09 1970s Color Silent PROTEST - MARCH Peace march on rural road: crowd of protesters marches down the road carrying various placard signs and banners ("Free Bobby Seale," "GIs for peace," "women strike for peace," anti-Vietnam War slogans, etc.) People standing in back of truck w megaphones. HDN (8046) 3021-25 01:30:04:10 -- 01:30:23:29 1970s Color Silent PROTEST - MARCH VS Side view peace march on rural road. People holding signs and making peace sign when they pass CAM. HDN (8046) 3021-26 01:30:24:00 -- 01:30:30:00 1975 Color w Sound PROTEST - MARCH Women's liberation march with feminist anti-war placards "Sisterhood is Powerful - End the War!" "Women Strike for Peace and Equality!" and love balloons. GLD (8039) 3021-27 01:30:30:01 -- 01:30:58:11 1960s Color w Sound PROTEST VS anti-war protests on college campuses and rally. VO Spanish narrator- millions of youth asked "Why were we in Vietnam." Placard "US Troops out of Indochina Now." Moving picket lines. EBC (8028) 3021-28 01:30:58:12 -- 01:32:03:04 1960s Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET Anti-war, anti-Nixon protest with signs & placards "Nixon is Guilty of Murder" "Save Lives Not Face" "Pax" and peace symbols on flags and armbands. PET (8078) 3021-29 01:32:03:05 -- 01:32:14:17 1970s Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET VS women's anti-war demonstration outside of White House - two older women carry posters "Censure Nixon the Mad Bomber," "Nixon Can Stop the War- Set the Date!" HDN (8046) 3021-30 01:32:14:18 -- 01:32:24:29 1970s Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET VS women's anti-war demonstration outside of White House - "Censure Nixon The Mad Bomber..." women and a few men carry posters with slogans and pictures. WS marching in front of White House gate with sun glare. HDN (8046) 3021-31 01:32:25:00 -- 01:32:35:23 1970s Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET VS women's anti-war demonstration outside of White House. Female protesters walk past railings, carry placards outside of White House HDN (8046) 3021-32 01:32:35:24 -- 01:33:29:04 1972 Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET Good color footage Anti-Vietnam war demonstration outside of courthouse FBI building in sunshine, Washington DC. Man attaches poster to closed doors of building. Moving picket with posters. Woman feeds infant baby food. Hippie woman bottle-feeds her baby, CU cordon of uniformed Black policemen guard front of building. (ends a little after man with "how long?" poster passes by) HDN (8046) 3021-33 01:33:29:05 -- 01:33:48:23 1972 Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET Protesters marching at Anti-Vietnam war demonstration outside of courthouse FBI building Washington DC. They carry "Try War Criminals," "How Long?" posters. HDN (8046) 3021-34 01:33:48:24 -- 01:34:03:08 1972 Color Silent PROTEST - MOVING PICKET Uniformed policemen in crowd holds film camera on shoulder, shooting demonstration in front of FBI building Washington DC. Marching protesters carry signs "No Secret Police." "Try war criminals, not war resisters." HDN (8046) 3021-35 01:34:03:09 -- 01:34:41:21 1960s B W w Sound PROTEST - RALLY Anti-war concert and rally with Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe & The Fish). CU McDonald (peace sign painted on cheek) talks & recites chorus to his "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag." GMP (8109) 3021-36 01:34:41:22 -- 01:35:15:16 1960s Color Silent PROTEST - RALLY VS anti-war, anti-Nixon rally (in Los Angeles?) with lots of signs "Nixon is Guilty of Murder" "We're Still There - Why?" "End All War" La Raza placards, "Basta" (enough) "Fight Poverty not People" placard. PET (8078) 3021-37 01:35:15:17 -- 01:35:26:16 1960s Color Silent PROTEST - RALLY Six anti-war demonstrators walking arm-in-arm, chanting slogans, followed by others on sidewalk. PET (8078) 3021-38 01:35:26:17 -- 01:35:51:11 1968 B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER Good brief interview w Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver addressing Vietnam war. When mainstream America realizes who's responsible for "all their sons being murdered in Vietnam, they're going to be just like the Panthers." PYN (8083) 3021-39 01:35:51:12 -- 01:36:11:29 1968 or 1969 B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER CU young woman on street speaks- talks about draft resistance, supporting her boyfriend's evading draft & mother's promise not to let her son be drafted. PYN (8083) 3021-40 01:36:12:00 -- 01:46:10:25 1970 B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER CU powerful speech "You Don't have to Buy War, Mrs. Smith." New York City official, columnist Bess Myerson Grant addresses the World Mother's Day Assembly of Another Mother for Peace, San Francisco, CA. Refers to Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Cambodia, Kent State, the silent majority, policy, etc. Uses New York City columnist Pete Hamill's column on Cambodia "peace-keeping", "65 cents dollar" goes to war, Pentagon's "inventory of insanity." PYN (8083) 3021-41 01:46:10:26 -- 01:48:00:18 1970 B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER You Don't have to Buy War, Mrs. Smith Bess Myerson Grant speech cont. She lists demands from US companies involved in war industry, pollution. General Motors, Dow, GE, Whirlpool, etc.- "Get out of the war business. Make us the products that give quality to life." Gives peace sign as she concludes speech. PYN (8083) 3021-42 01:48:00:19 -- 01:48:12:29 1970s Color Silent ANTI-WAR SPEAKER Congresswoman Bella Abzug speaks on steps of Washington DC building in anti-Nixon, anti-war protest rally. People hold "censure Nixon" signs in crowd. HDN (8046) 3021-43 01:48:13:00 -- 01:49:00:09 1970s Color w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER Anti-war organized labor representative Mr Lacy (?) of the Labor For Peace organization speaks at press conference about the group's opposition to the Vietnam War, Washington DC. Supports putting pressure on policymakers to end war. HDN (8046) 3021-44 01:49:00:10 -- 01:49:52:20 1970s B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER McDonnell Douglas documentary. Interview w Harold Gibbons, VP International Brotherhood of Teamsters union representative speaks about destructive impact of war in Vietnam, (society divided, resources lost, sons & daughters lost) interview cut with anti-war demonstrations. PYN (8083) 3021-45 01:49:52:21 -- 01:51:15:17 1970s B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER McDonnell Douglas Former worker at McDonnell Douglas talks about being Anti-Vietnam War, working on aircraft, leaving company to work for Veteran's Administration Hospital. PYN (8083) 3021-46 01:51:15:18 -- 01:51:26:09 1970s B W w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKER McDonnell Douglas CU Teamsters VP Harold Gibbons comments on economic and social cost of war. "80 billion dollars to war machine" instead of raising standard of living. PYN (8083) 3021-47 01:51:26:10 -- 01:54:34:15 1960s or 1970s Color Silent and w Sound ANTI-WAR SPEAKERS, PRO-WAR Washed-out color. Public high school teacher walks to work wearing black armband in protest against war in Vietnam. Interview w teacher. VS board of education meeting with pro and con speakers talking about firing teacher, Vietnam War. Housewife, American Legion rep., veteran. BME (8013) 3021-48 01:54:34:16 -- 01:54:43:07 1966 Color Silent COUNTER DEMONSTRATION Excellent footage: Small pro-war march on sunny day, Los Angeles, CA with banner "If you want peace fight for it - Destroy Communism and Fascism!" PET (8078) 3021-49 01:54:43:08 -- 01:54:52:07 1966 Color Silent COUNTER DEMONSTRATION Excellent footage: ZO Pro-Vietnam War activists carry placards in small demonstration, Los Angeles, CA. "Better Dead than Red," "Support our sons in Vietnam." PET (8078) 3021-50 01:54:52:08 -- 01:55:08:05 1966 Color Silent COUNTER DEMONSTRATION Excellent Pro-Vietnam war activists march towards anti-war protest march (right wing Cuban activists). Front lines clash and scuffle ensues, people using signs as weapons. PET (8078) 3021-51 01:55:08:08 -- 01:55:31:05 1966 Color Silent COUNTER DEMONSTRATION Excellent closer shot of pro-Vietnam War activists clashing with anti-war protest march and scuffle, people running away (right-wing Cuban activists). PET (8078) 3021-52 01:55:31:06 -- 01:55:36:28 1970s Color Silent COUNTER DEMONSTRATION Pro-war demonstrators on steps of Capitol building, Washington DC. Placard "Save the GIs" "Cut Fulbright, not funds." HDN (8046) 3021-53 01:55:36:29 -- 01:55:49:11 1970s Color Silent COUNTER DEMONSTRATION Pro-war demonstrators on steps of Capitol building, Washington, DC. WS Capitol with crowds, Bob Dole talks to man in FG. CU Bob Dole, Strom Thurmond and unidentified man. Dole addresses crowd (shot from behind Dole) HDN (8046) 3021-54 01:55:49:12 -- 01:56:07:03 1970s Color Silent FLAG BURNING Protesters burn American flag at demonstration, Washington, DC. CU placard "Peace is not UnAmerican." HDN (8046) 3021-55 01:56:07:04 -- 01:56:17:05 1972 Color Silent CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Anti-Vietnam protest in Washington DC park. Woman, wearing T-shirt with peace symbol on front, is calmly escorted away from crowd by police. Second young woman follows and gives peace sign. HDN (8046) 3021-56 01:56:17:06 -- 01:56:24:04 1972 Color Silent CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Washington DC- LA group of anti-war protesters clapping outside of federal building with Viet Cong flag - crowd of demonstrators sitting in street. HDN (8046) 3021-57 01:56:24:05 -- 01:56:29:12 1972 Color Silent CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Hippie demonstrator sitting on ground wearing red headband turns and gives peace sign to CAM. HDN (8046) 3021-58 01:56:29:13 -- 01:57:12:29 1972 Color Silent CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Washington DC. Many short clips of anti-war civil disobedience action on street. Riot police beat, arrest & drag off demonstrators. Demonstrators protect mouth and noses with handkerchiefs from gas. Demonstrators sit on street, face cops, give peace sign, wave American flags. HDN (8046) 3021-59 01:57:13:00 -- 01:57:44:26 1972 Color Silent CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE VS arrested anti-war, hippie Peace Camp demonstrators stand against bus being frisked and searched by police, Washington, DC. Woman in green and black jacket gives peace sign to still CAM. HDN (8046) 01:57:44:27 -- END OF TAPE
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