“A young American girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the war in Vietnam.”
“College students carrying pro-American signs heckle anti-war student demonstrators protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam.”
Boston, USA - Oct. 16, 1965
This day in history:
Norman Morrison, a Quaker and devoted father of three children, travels to the Pentagon along with his one year old daughter Emily.
After arriving, he either places Emily on the ground a safe distance away, or hands her off to a stranger.
He then proceeds to light himself on fire and burns to death outside of the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in protest of the Vietnam War.
Whether he thought of it that way or not, I think having Emily with him was a final and great comfort to Norman…She was a powerful symbol of the children we were killing with our bombs and napalm—who didn’t have parents to hold them in their arms.
November 2, 1965 - 46 years ago today.
This day in history:
More than 100,000 people turn out to protest the Vietnam War at the National Mall in Washington D.C, in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Later on in the day around 50,000 of them march towards the Pentagon where they are blocked off by members of the military.
While at the Pentagon, Abbie Hoffman promises to levitate the building with the combined psychic powers of the protesters, claiming that he would thus put an end to the Vietnam War.
October 21, 1967 - 44 years ago today.
The Egyptian Tank Man.
Cairo, Egypt - January 25, 2011.
An American man attending a protest during the Iran hostage crisis.
Washington D.C. - 1979
A Palestinian man being detained by an Israeli police officer dressed in civilian clothing.
Checkpoint between Ramallah & Jerusalem -May 15, 2011.
