https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9 Made with charm en-us 2021-01-22 14:18:32 UTC 2026-01-19 13:09:24 UTC hello@padlet.com smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114480280 April 17, 1965: This was the largest anti-war protest to have been held in Washington D.C. up to that time. The number of marchers (15,000-25,000) was close to the number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam at the time (less than 25,000)]]> 2021-01-22 15:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114480280 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114493833 October 15, 1965: David Miller burns his draft card. He was not the first person to do so. As protests against the Vietnam War increased in the 1960s, the destruction of Selective Service registration certificates became common enough that in August of 1965, President Johnson signed a law making it a federal crime to destroy or mutilate the cards. Miller became the first person to be prosecuted under the law. He was sentenced to three years in prison. Shortly after he was sent to jail, major protests in New york and San Francisco showcased organized draft-card burnings. ]]> 2021-01-22 15:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114493833 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114511590 December 16, 1965: Several high school students in Des Moines, IOWA decided to protest against American bombing in Vietnam bu wearing black armbands to school. On the day of the protests, administrators told the students to remove the armbands or they would be suspended. 13-year old Mary Beth Tinker and 16-year old Christian Eckhardt refused to remote their armbands and were sent home. The Tinkers sued their school. Their case, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, eventually went to the Supreme Court. In February 1969, in a landmark 7-2 decision, the high court ruled in favor of the students. ]]> 2021-01-22 15:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114511590 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114534013 April 28, 1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. military through the draft, which resulted in him losing his boxing license and being effectively exiled from the world of boxing from 1967 to 1970. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service. On June 20, 1967, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years. He stayed out of prion as his case was appealed and the same year, the US Supreme Court overturned his conviction for evading the draft.]]> 2021-01-22 15:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114534013 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114552302 January 1968: Legendary actress and singer Eartha Kitt's famous January 1968 confrontation with first lady, Lady Bird Johnson occured at the White House during a luncheon that was supposed to be about juvenile delinquency. Kitt told the Washington Post in 1978 that she was effectively blacklisted from the US entertainment industry after her outburst upset the First Lady. According to a 1975 New York Times article, the CIA had already been looking into Kitt since the 1950s. She would eventually return to fame in the States in the late '70s.]]> 2021-01-22 15:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114552302 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114568496 May 4, 1970: The protest at Kent State University came after days of intense anti-war resistance on the Kent State campus. By May 3, roughly a thousand National Guard troops were there. At a May 4th demonstration, armed guardsman advanced on the crowd and 29 opened fire for 13 seconds, shooting off 67 rounds. Students Allison Krause (19), Sandy Scheuer (20), Jeffrey Miller (20), and William Know Schroeder (19) were killed. Scheuer and Schroeder had been walking to class and were not even participating in the protest.]]> 2021-01-22 15:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114568496 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114582606 May 8, 1970: Days after the shooting at Kent State, college students gathered to protest on Wall Street in the heart of New York City's financial district. The protest was attacked by a violent mob of construction workers swinging clubs and other weapons in what became known as "The Hard Hat Riot." The flag at New York City Hall was flown at half-staff to honor the Kent State students. A mob of construction workers swarmed the police providing security at City Hall and demanded the flag be raise to the top of the flagpole. The flag was raised and then lowered later in the day. ]]> 2021-01-22 15:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114582606 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114606000 May 8th, 1970: After the Hard Hat riot, President Nixon made a surprise visit to talk to student protestors who had gathered in Washington near the Lincoln Memorial. Nixon later said he tried to explain his position on the war and urged students to keep their protests peaceful. Nixon's awkward efforts at early morning reconciliation seemed to have fallen flat. And in the wake of Kent State, the nation remained deeply divided. ]]> 2021-01-22 15:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114606000 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114649802 April 24, 1971: 500,000 people demonstrated against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. on April 24th while around 156,000 simultaneously marched in San Francisco. Prior to the massive rally, Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged a week-long series of demonstrations culminating in a protest at the U.S. Capitol where veterans threw back their service medals. This rally in San Francisco was the largest such rally to date on the West Coast. ]]> 2021-01-22 16:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114649802 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114676827 April 19-23, 1971: Thousands Vietnam veterans from a newly formed organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in Washington, D.C. calling for an end to the war. The event was called Operation Dewey Canyon III by the veterans, named after a series of incursions into Laos and Cambodia by the same name. Many different protest strategies were used including: singing, guerilla theater, occupation of monuments and offices, and camping on federal grounds. The most symbolic of these strategies occurred on the last day when Veterans went to the U.S. Capitol to hand over their awards and medals to Congress. That morning, almost 1,000 veterans arrived at the Capitol. One by one each veterans said their name, rank, regiment, and the award they received from Vietnam. Then they would turn around and throw awards, medals, ribbons, commendations, etc. from the war over the fence towards the U.S. Capitol. ]]> 2021-01-22 16:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1114676827 smckenna11 https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1140358656 November 3rd, 1969:  President Richard Nixon goes on television and radio to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to gather support for his policies; his call for support is an attempt to blunt the renewed strength of the antiwar movement. 

Pledging that the US was "going to keep our commitment in Vietnam," he said U.S. forces would continue fighting until the communists agreed to a fair and honorable peace, or until the south Vietnamese were able to defend themselves on their own. A Gallup Poll survey carried out in the wake of the President's speech indicated that 77% were in support of Nixon's policy in Vietnam. Congressional reaction to the president's speech was also overwhelmingly favorable. The term "Silent Majority" has been used to refer to Conservative voters who do not participate in the public discourse.]]> 2021-01-29 12:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/smckenna11/v92x71fyddx2tz9/wish/1140358656