English subtitles for clip: File:1967-04-18 Peace March.ogv
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1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:15,040 Anti-war demonstrators protest US involvement in the Vietnam War in mass marches, rallies, and demonstrations. 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,760 Central Park is the starting point for the parade to the UN building. The estimated 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:27,400 125,000 Manhattan marchers include students, housewives, beatnik poets, doctors, businessmen, teachers, priests, and nuns. 4 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,920 Makeup and costumes were bizarre. 5 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,000 Before the parade, mass draft card burning was urged. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,160 Demonstrators claimed 200 cards were burned, but no accurate count could be determined. 7 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:46,600 Reporters and onlookers were jostled away on purpose. 8 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:53,600 Although mostly peaceful, shouted confrontations were frequent and fiery during the course of the march. 9 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:01,400 The anti-war marchers were picketed by anti-anti-war marchers who were hawkish toward the parading doves. 10 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:13,320 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King leads the procession to the United Nations where he urges UN pressure 11 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:17,320 to force the US to stop bombing North Vietnam. 12 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:28,120 Police arrested five persons as disorderly. Three were grabbed when they rushed the parade float. No serious injuries, however, in New York's biggest anti-war march. 13 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:38,520 A companion peace demonstration brings out 50,000 marchers in downtown San Francisco. They parade two miles along Market Street, 14 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,040 pacifists and hippies together. 15 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:51,640 The gigantic Kezar Stadium holds the mass rally where anti-war songs and speeches trigger a short scuffle between pro and con factions. No one was injured. 16 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:58,960 Both demonstrations were sponsored by a loose coalition of left-wing, pacifist and moderate anti-war groups. 17 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:05,320 President Johnson, meanwhile, let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity. 18 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:14,640 In Rome, a peace demonstration ironically erupts into violence near the US Embassy along the glamorous Via Veneto. 19 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:21,560 Police, alerted to possible trouble, stopped the marchers just short of their goal, and then the march turned into a riot. 20 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,720 Peace placards, café chairs and fists flew in all directions. 21 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:31,880 The next phase, a sit-down protest, but Rome police and firemen too had a solution. 22 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:40,720 A solution: H₂O, applied freely and under high pressure by the Rome Fire Brigade. The strong water jets bowled over demonstrators one after another. 23 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:47,200 They dried out in the pokey. It took police one hour to break up the mob. 33 rioters were arrested. 24 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,920 Internal drama in the eternal city!