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Associated Press Overhead View of Antiwar Rally

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09795.01 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: 21 October 1967 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 24.1 x 15.9 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto released by the Associated Press dated October 21, 1967. Shows Vietnam antiwar demonstrators gathered around the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial with the Washington Monument and the Capitol building in the background. Protest was organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

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