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Demonstrations

United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

16Records
1965–1971Date range
4Named people
4Places

Chronological records

1965

Lyndon Baines Johnson31 August 1965

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

President Johnson signs a law criminalizing draft card burning, leads to widespread demonstrations

Lyndon Baines Johnson16 October 1965

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Anti-war rallies occur in 40 U.S. cities and in international cities including London & Rome

1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson15 April 1967

San Francisco · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Over 100,000 in New York & over 50,000 in San Francisco demonstrate against the War

1968

Lyndon Baines Johnson19 January 1968

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

At a White House conference on crime, singer and actress Eartha Kitt denounces the Vietnam War to Lady Bird Johnson while attending a "ladies lunch"

Eartha Kitt19 January 1968

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

At a White House conference on crime, singer and actress Eartha Kitt denounces the Vietnam War to Lady Bird Johnson while attending a "ladies lunch"

Lyndon Baines Johnson13 February 1968

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Civil rights disturbances occur at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lyndon Baines Johnson17 March 1968

London · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

A demonstration in London's Grosvenor Square against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War leads to violence; 91 people are injured, 200 demonstrators arrested

Lewis Hershey21 March 1968

Howard University · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the US Selective Service System

Lyndon Baines Johnson21 March 1968

Howard University · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System

1969

Richard Milhous Nixon15 October 1969

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

The Vietnam Moratorium Committee lead a march of 250,000 in Washington DC

Richard Milhous Nixon15 October 1969

Washington · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Faces massive anti war demonstrations in Washington

Richard Milhous Nixon15 November 1969

Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Moratorium demonstration of 500,000 in Washington DC

Richard Milhous Nixon16 November 1969

Washington · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Faces anti-war demonstrations following the revelation of the My Lai massacre

1971

Richard Milhous Nixon23 April 1971

Washington · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Vietnam veterans return medals & military decorations in anti war protests on Capitol

Richard Milhous Nixon24 April 1971

Washington · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

200,000 people attend an anti war demonstrations in Washington DC

Richard Milhous Nixon3 May 1971

Washington · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Anti war protest in Washington DC

Names involved

Eartha KittLewis HersheyLyndon Baines JohnsonRichard Milhous Nixon

Provenance

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