Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Vietnam Veterans Against the War, staging a week-long anti-war demonstration defied a Supreme Court order forbidding a campout on the Capitol Mall and spent the night stretched out in the bedrolls or huddled under plastic trash bags. Dawn 4/22 found most of them still asleep, and no apparently effort by police to enforce the order.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, staging a week-long anti-war demonstration defied a Supreme Court order forbidding a campout on the Capitol Mall and spent the night stretched out in the bedrolls or huddled under plastic trash bags. Dawn 4/22 found most of them still asleep, and no apparently effort by police to enforce the order.
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War, staging a week-long anti-war demonstration defied a Supreme Court order forbidding a campout on the Capitol Mall and spent the night stretched out in the bedrolls or huddled under plastic trash bags. Dawn 4/22 found most of them still asleep, and no apparently effort by police to enforce the order.

United Press International · [ca. April 1971]

CC0 — Public Domain
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