When I get time, I will add more photo and stories.
For now, here is a photo that William Blum wanted an anti-war photo for his latest book West-Block Dissident: A Cold War memoir, Soft Skull Press 2002.
I remembered a rather dramatic and radical one from "In The Teeth Of War," a "PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY OF THE MARCH 26th, 1966, NEW YORK CITY DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM, published by The Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee. Here is the photo by Robert Parent (deceased) from page 38:
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Other photos had the usual collection of Doves, children, heartfelt signs and some of the full of hate pro-war hecklers.
Here's another that shows one of the many side streets that would feed into the larger demonstration. Remember, this was 1966 and contrary to the pro-war propagandists today who argue that the peaceniks spat on the veterans, check out the signs in these photos of the typical collection of Bring the Boys home, etc. Almost no one was against the draftees or even the GI volunteers. We understood that it was some of the political and military leaders who were to blame. From the beginning of the war, the peace movement seriously organized for and among the GI's. Many of the earliest and most determined anti-war organizers were veterans who had been through enough to see through the latest propaganda. (If you have DSL, click here for a larger version)
(Guess who the stern looking guys on the lower right were?)
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More later when I have time. | ||
| Walter Teague |
Some links to Vietnam War (U.S. war on Viet Nam) demonstrations......
Roz Payne has some interesting stuff
Robert Altmans
archives of the 60's He has a number of galleries of photos from the
60's.
Leaflets
from the Anti Vietnam War Movement. There was a site, but has now
been reserved. Try this Google
An interesting Peace
Page on a Veteran's web page. He has some interesting links
A High School Teacher
created a project page on Kent State -- Check
his links page too.
Some photo
links at a Wellesley College page, scroll down to Antiwar Movement
Lots of stuff
on Vietnam and the war. Mixed quality.
E. Kenneth Hoffman's photos
Jo Freeman's
page on the 1967 March on the Pentagon - leaves out a lot.
Student
Protests against the war This one has good links.
The
Sixties Project Lots of stuff here. You may have to search a bit.
PsyOps Study
of NLF leaflets This is an odd one, but distinguishes between
real and fake leaflets. It would be interesting to psychologically and politically
analyze this site.
Anyway, there is a lot more out there, so...
A
fairly good way to find more anti-war photos or other images on the web, is to
use Google's Image Search.
For example here is the page where I simply typed
in "Vietnam
war protest": It brought up 7 pages of photos. Of course, all these
photos can be seen in larger format and saved to your computer.
Updated: 09/06/2007
