Vietnam war protests?

Question

what are some famous vienam war protests and other facts about the anti vietnam war movement??

Answer 1

.too bad the guys that answered Kent state don't know the students shot were people not taking part in the protest but were just passing by on a sidewalk that was higher than where the protest was taking place, the guardsmen were shooting warning shots. but ignorance has no bounds

most of the reason that the protests were so large , was because there was a draft that effected most American family's in one way or another. but the USSR also helped fund them also to the tune of 500 million dollars

Answer 2

4 shot dead in Kent State OH after attacking national guardsmen and trying to imitate the VC and free jane fonda.

Answer 3

Kent State, like the other guy said

Those lousy hippie scumbags got what they deserved!

Answer 4

As the toll of death and destruction of the Vietnam War mounted, the protest movement grew in numbers and spread across the country. Violence erupted in cities and on college campuses.

Police used tear gas against protesters on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Ohio National Guard troops killed four students on the campus of Kent State University.

The entire world watched in 1968 as Chicago police battled war protesters on the street outside the Democratic National Convention where, inside, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey played major colliding roles and where Humphrey's political career and future were changed forever.

I got this from wiki

1963

In August 1963, the first organized Vietnam War protests took place in New York and Philadelphia held by American pacifists during the annual commemorations of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings

1964

    * On May 2, 400 to 1000 students marched through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco in the first major student demonstration against the war. Smaller numbers also marched in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin.

    * August: for reference, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution occurred in August 1964.

1965

    * On March 24, the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) attended the first teach-in, organized by some teachers, against the war at the University of Michigan, attended by 2,500 participants. This was to be repeated at 35 campuses across the country.

    * On April 17, the SDS and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington DC, with about 25,000 protesters.

    * The first draft card burnings took place at University of California, Berkeley at student demonstrations in May organized by a new anti-war group, the Vietnam Day Committee, where a coffin was marched to the local Draft board office, a teach-in was attended by 30,000, and president Lyndon Johnson was burned in effigy.

    * Gallup poll in May showed 48% of US respondents felt the Government was handling the conflict effectively; 28% felt the situation was being handled badly; the rest, no opinion.

    * Protests were held in June on the steps of the Pentagon, and in August, attempts were made by activists at Berkeley to stop trains carrying troops from moving.

    * Polls in late August show that 24% of Americans view sending troops to Vietnam as a mistake versus 60% who do not. [3]

    * In mid-October, the anti-war movement had significantly expanded to become a national and even global phenomenon, as anti-war protests drawing 100,000 were held simultaneously in as many as 80 major cities around the US, London, Paris and Rome.

    * On November 2, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old pacifist, poured kerosene on himself and set himself on fire in below the third-floor window of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, emulating the actions of Thích Quảng Đức.

    * On November 27, some 25,000 protesters led by several student activist groups surrounded the White House, calling for an end to the war, then marched to the Washington Monument. On that same day, President Johnson announced a significant escalation of US involvement in Indochina, from 120,000 to 400,000 troops.

1966

    * In February, a group of about 100 veterans attempted to return their decorations to the White House in protest of the war, but were turned back.

    * Anti-war demonstrations were again held around the country and the world March 26 with 20,000 taking part in New York City.

    * On May 15, another large demonstration, with 10,000 picketers calling for an end to the war, took place outside the White House and the Washington Monument.

    * June 4 - a three page anti-war ad appeared in The New York Times bearing the signatures of 6,400 teachers and professors.

    * June - The Gallup poll respondents supporting the US handling of the war slipped to 41%; 37% expressed disapproval; the rest, no opinion.

    * A crowd of 4,000 demonstrated against the US war in London on July 3 and scuffled with police outside the US Embassy; 33 protesters were arrested.

    * Protests, strikes and sit-ins continued at Berkeley and across other campuses throughout the year, and also, three army privates known as the 'Fort Hood Three" refused to deploy in Vietnam, calling the war "illegal and immoral", and were sentenced to prison terms.

    * Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali — formerly known as Cassius Clay — declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali "disgusting" and the governor of Maine said that Ali "should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American."[4] In 1967 Ali was sentenced to 5 years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and banned from professional boxing for more than three years.

1967

    * January 14 - 20,000-30,000 people staged a "Human Be-In" anti-war event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, near the Haight Ashbury neighborhood that had become the center of hippie activity.

    * February 8 - Christian groups opposed to the war staged a nationwide "Fast for Peace".

    * February 23 - The New York Review of Books published The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky as a special supplement.

    * March 17 - a group of antiwar citizens marched to the Pentagon to protest American involvement in Vietnam

    * March 25 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King led a march of 5,000 against the war in Chicago, Illinois.

    * On April 15, 400,000 people marched from Central Park to the UN building in New York City to protest the war, where they were addressed by critics of the war such as Benjamin Spock, Martin Luther King, and Jan Barry Crumb, a veteran of the conflict. On the same date 100,000 marched in San Francisco.

    * On April 24, Abbie Hoffman led a small group of protesters against both the war and capitalism who interrupted the New York Stock Exchange, causing chaos by throwing fistfuls of both real and fake dollars down from the gallery.

    * May 2 - British philosopher Bertrand Russell presided over the "Russell Tribunal" in Stockholm, a mock war crimes tribunal, which ruled that the US and its allies had committed war crimes in Vietnam. The proceedings were criticized as being a "show trial".

    * On May 30 Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D.C., and on June 1 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was born.

    * In the summer of 1967, Neil Armstrong and various other NASA officials began a tour of South America to raise awareness for space travel. According to First Man, a biography of Armstrong's life, during the tour, several college students protested the astronaut, and shouted such phrases as "Murderers get out of Vietnam!" and other anti-Vietnam War messages.

    * July 30: Gallup poll reported 52% of Americans disapproved of Johnson's handling of the war; 41% thought the US made a mistake in sending troops; over 56% thought US was losing the war or at an impasse.

    * In October 1967, Stop the Draft Week resulted in major clashes at the Oakland, California induction center, and saw more than a thousand registrants return their draft cards in events across the country. The cards were delivered to the Justice Department on October 20.

    * The next day, a large demonstration took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As many as 100,000 demonstrators attended the event, and at least 30,000 later marched to the Pentagon for another rally and an all night vigil. A few, including Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, attempted to "exorcise" and "levitate" the building, while others engaged in civil disobedience on the steps of the Pentagon, interrupted by clashes with soldiers and police. In all, 647 arrests were made. When a plot to airdrop 10,000 flowers on the Pentagon was foiled by undercover agents, these flowers ended up being placed in the barrels of MP's rifles, as seen in some famous photographs.[5] Norman Mailer documents the events surrounding the march on the pentagon in his novel "The Armies of the Night."

    By this time, it had also become commonplace for the most radical or outspoken elements among the anti-war marchers to prominently display the flag of the Viet Cong 'enemy', which only served to alienate many who were otherwise morally opposed to the conflict.

1968

    * February: Gallup poll showed 35% approved of Johnson's handling of the war; 50% disapproved; the rest, no opinion. [NYT, 2/14/68] In another poll that month, 23% of Americans defined themselves as "doves" and 61% "hawks".[5]

    * March 12: anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy received more votes than expected in the New Hampshire Primary, leading to more expressions of opposition against the war. McCarthy urged his supporters to exchange the 'unkempt look' that was rapidly becoming fashionable among war opponents, for a more clean-cut style, in order to petition middle-class and 'soccer mom' votes; these were known as "Clean Genes".

    * March 17 - Major rally outside the US Embassy in London's Grovesnor Square turned to a riot with 86 people injured and over 200 arrested. Over 10,000 had rallied peacefully in Trafalgar Square but met a police barricade outside the embassy. A UK Foreign Office report claimed that the rioting had been organised by 100 members if the German SDS who were "acknowledged experts in methods of riot against the police".

    * In March, Gallup poll reported that 49% of respondents felt involvement in the war was an error.

    * During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, held August 26–August 29 in Chicago, anti-war protesters assembled throughout the city. Tensions between police and protesters quickly escalated, resulting in a "police riot".

1969

    * March polls indicate that 19% of Americans want the war to end as soon as possible, 26% want South Vietnam to take over responsibility for the war from the U.S., 19% favor the current policy and 33% want all-out military victory. [6]

    * July 1969: A Gallup poll indicates that 53% of the respondents approve of Nixon's handling of the war; 30% disapprove; the balance have no opinion. [New York Times, 7/31/69]

    * The Moratorium demonstrations took place on October 15, 1969. Millions of Americans took the day off from work and school to participate in local demonstrations against the war. These were the first major demonstrations against the Nixon administration's handling of the war. On November 15, 1969 crowds estimated up to half a million people participated in an anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. with a similar demonstration being held in San Francisco, these protests being organized by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (New Mobe) and the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SMC).

    * In October, 58% of Gallup respondents said US entry into the war was a mistake.

    * In November, Sam Melville, Jane Alpert and several accomplices bombed several corporate offices and military installations (including the Whitehall Army Induction Center) in and around New York City in opposition to the war in Vietnam.

1970

    * Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest, Washington, D.C. A week after the Kent State Shootings, on 4 May, 100,000 anti-war demonstrators converged on Washington, D.C. to protest the shooting of the students in Ohio and the Nixon administration's incursion into Cambodia. Even though the demonstration was quickly put together, protesters were still able to bring out thousands to march in the Capital. It was an almost spontaneous response to the events of the previous week. Police ringed the White House with buses to block the demonstrators from getting too close to the executive mansion. Early in the morning before the march, Nixon met with protesters briefly at the Lincoln Memorial but nothing was resolved and the protest went on as planned.

    * On August 24, 1970, near 3:40 a.m., a van filled with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil mixture was detonated on the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Sterling Hall bombing.

    * The Chicano Moratorium: on 29 August, 1970, 25,000 Mexican-Americans participated in the largest anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles. Police attacked with clubs and guns. Three people were killed. Ruben Salazar, KMEX news director and Los Angeles Times reporter was killed.

1971 and beyond

Avoiding service in the Vietnam War would later become an issue in American politics. Politicians criticized for avoiding service include Vice-President Dan Quayle, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush and Vice-President d**k Cheney.

Opposition to the Vietnam War in Australia followed along similar lines to the United States, particularly with opposition to conscription. While Australian disengagement began in August 1971 under Prime Minister John Gorton, it was not until the election of Gough Whitlam in 1972 that conscription ended.

The bombing of Hanoi on December 24, 1972 resulted in harsh reactions from the prime-minister of Sweden Olof Palme. During his famous speech that same day to the media (Nowadays referred to as "The Christmas speech"), he expressed harsh criticism for the war, comparing it with several of n**i Germany's worst deeds. This froze the diplomatic climate between the United States and Sweden, which lasted until March 1974.

Answer 5

The protesters were draft dodgers and misfits

Answer 6

Kent State Ohio, May 1970

Answer 7

My favorite was the attempt to levitate the Pentagon!

Answer 8

Kent State where peaceful protesters were shot, without provocation by scared national guard reservists