International buyers pay actual shipping costs plus 2.75 and may pay by Paypal or International or Postal money order (US $ only). After completion of the auction you will receive an invoice. Jewelry and small items are shipped in INDESTRUCTO boxes WHICH WE PURCHASE. Our shipping and handling costs include a partial reimbursement of our costs, including our careful packaging. The images were combined and then further altered to appear as if the combined image was from an old newspaper clipping. The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The image is a composite of two different images: one of Kerry taken on June 13, 1971, at an anti-war rally in Mineola, New York and one of Fonda taken in August, 1972, speaking at a Miami Beach, Florida rally. At the age of 17, he left home to join the United States Navy. = $ 3.85 plus insurance, if desired, (in US) by check, money order or online with eBay's Paypal. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. Dennis Stock was born in 1928 in New York City.
The posters in the back are really interesting as well as the way the people are dressed. I was informed by Estate that he removed cuff links before rallies and speaking engagements because people would grab at him and inevitably he would lose them. What makes this photo interesting is that RFK is not wearing his cuff links. anti war rally, spring 1968 (marked on back of the board by photographer). 5 The creation of a unified front against the war and foreign intervention integrates Americans from both the political Left and political Right into a. The anti-war rally on April 27 began with speeches at Grant Park, followed by a march through the Loop to the Civic Center Plaza. Martin Luther King walking with a group of men.Recently purchased from an Estate I was told this is an original photo on board of RFK at a University of Penna. This rally, sponsored by the Libertarian Party and Jimmy Dore, among others, is a step in the right direction, away from the rut of isolation that anti-war protests have been stuck in. In San Francisco, around 156,000 march-the largest such. April 24, 1971: Massive anti-war rally of around 200,000 people is held on the Mall in Washington, D.C. King, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon).įinally, the clip begins with a fragment of another audio source and seems to end a bit abruptly, but there is some fine footage of war demonstrators, war supporters, hippies, and most notably, Dr. March 26, 1968: Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez marries David Harris, anti-war activist and ex-student body president of Stanford University, in New York.
Martin Luther King speaking out against the war.Īnother interesting aspect of this clip is the almost casual throwaway manner that the announcer states that President Johnson warned that Hoover's FBI was keeping tabs on leftwing groups, which was revealed in the 1980s to some shock how extensive it was (including dossiers on prominent figures such as Dr. While the goals of the two groups were often different, and those differences would become more pronounced after the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, there was also times would the various groups would work together, here demonstrated by Dr. There is a tendancy from our contemporary standpoint to look upon the hippies of the late 1960s as the predominant force in American life, but as this newsreel makes clear, they were viewed as a radicial margin.Īnother point that is often not noted enough is the cross over between the civil rights and anti-war protestors. Terms like "beatnik" and "hippie" are used interchangibly, and they are lumped in with all stripes of anti-war protestors. Probably more than any document that I've seen, this newsreel clip clearly documents the sometimes ambivilent feelings of mainstream America during this era. A fragment of a newsreel from the very end of the era covering demonstrations against the Vietnam War in New York, San Francisco and Rome.