English subtitles for clip: File:1967-04-18 Peace March.ogv

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Anti-war demonstrators protest US involvement in the Vietnam War in mass marches, rallies, and demonstrations.

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Central Park is the starting point for the parade to the UN building. The estimated

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125,000 Manhattan marchers include students, housewives, beatnik poets, doctors, businessmen, teachers, priests, and nuns.

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Makeup and costumes were bizarre.

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Before the parade, mass draft card burning was urged.

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Demonstrators claimed 200 cards were burned, but no accurate count could be determined.

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Reporters and onlookers were jostled away on purpose.

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Although mostly peaceful, shouted confrontations were frequent and fiery during the course of the march.

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The anti-war marchers were picketed by anti-anti-war marchers who were hawkish toward the parading doves.

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Civil rights leader Martin Luther King leads the procession to the United Nations where he urges UN pressure

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to force the US to stop bombing North Vietnam.

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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.

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A companion peace demonstration brings out 50,000 marchers in downtown San Francisco. They parade two miles along Market Street,

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pacifists and hippies together.

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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.

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Both demonstrations were sponsored by a loose coalition of left-wing, pacifist and moderate anti-war groups.

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President Johnson, meanwhile, let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity.

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In Rome, a peace demonstration ironically erupts into violence near the US Embassy along the glamorous Via Veneto.

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Police, alerted to possible trouble, stopped the marchers just short of their goal, and then the march turned into a riot.

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Peace placards, café chairs and fists flew in all directions.

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The next phase, a sit-down protest, but Rome police and firemen too had a solution.

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A solution: H₂O, applied freely and under high pressure by the Rome Fire Brigade. The strong water jets bowled over demonstrators one after another.

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They dried out in the pokey. It took police one hour to break up the mob. 33 rioters were arrested.

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Internal drama in the eternal city!