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1971 May Day hippies rock festival in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
A rock festival in West Potomac Park during the 1971 May Day protests in Washington DC to protest the Vietnam War. Crowds of anti-war protesters belonging to different youth subcultures, such as college students, hippies, and high school students, camp and attend rock concert in West Potomac Park. A hotdog vendor selling Sabrett frankfurters to protesters in West Potomac Park. Various images of teenagers and protest participants attending a rock concert in West Potomac Park. Band playing onstage during a rock festival in West Potomac Park. African American man dances to rock music. A couple, lying down in an embrace. Teenager dancing. A toddler riding the back of his parent during the rock festival. Two teenagers embracing. A teenager smokes. Medics carry a drug overdose patient away from a D.C. Human Resources Drug Mobile for treatment. A police helicopter flying over West Potomac Park. Aerial view of the West Potomac Park filled with over 25, 000 rock festival and May Day protest participants. An image taken during the evening showing an aerial view of the 40, 000 participants gathered in the West Potomac Park. A police officer sits at his desk using a loupe magnifier to view photos taken from the West Potomac Park rock festival. Close view of a rock singer performing onstage.
Police arrest hippies during 1971 May Day Protests against Vietnam War, Washington D.C.
United States Park Police and Washington DC Metropolitan Police mobilize to close down the 1971 May Day anti-war protesters’ gathering in West Potomac Park. Helicopter in sky at night. Police car at night. United States Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police, dressed in riot gear, raid the West Potomac Park in early morning, giving orders to campers to vacate the park by noon or face arrest. Police vans arrive in West Potomac Park. Hippies carry their belongings as anti Vietnam war protest ends. Hippies with trumpet and clarinet. Police officer gives out orders to hippies using a megaphone, saying those "who don't leave the area are in violation of the law and will be arrested." Hippies carry their backpacks, paraphernalia such as flags, and walk out of park on foot. Some leave the campsite by car. A police officer talks on walkie talkie. A vandalized police van, with graffiti written on it reading, "VC RULE IT," “MAY DAY”, “MAO”, and “PIG” drives away. Volkswagen Type 2 camper vans drive away from park. Protesters pack up their belongings and leave along with their dogs. Policeman says on camera to reporter, "everyone is supposed to be leaving now” Park police holding batons ask sitting campers to leave. A group of hippies singing and clapping in defiance as they are surrounded by policemen. Policemen arrest a handful of sitting protestors. A female Metropolitan Police officer holds a woman hippie who is shouting insults and expletives at the policewoman, saying, "why don't you get off your phony eyelashes!" and "Take off your girdle and your false tits!" and “stop feeling me up you f*ggot woman!!" A policeman asks the girl her name and she swears when responding, “None of your business a**hole!” Camera zooms close to hippy's face as she shouts “You are all f*cking pigs! All of you!” at the police.
Detained demonstrators during 1971 May Day Vietnam antiwar protests.
Entrance of Superior Court of the District of Columbia Building A at 515 5th St NW Washington, D.C., DC 20001 . Antiwar demonstrators with their hands on their heads are led out of the police bus into the D.C. jail after their mass arrest during the 1971 May Day Protests in Washington DC against the Vietnam War. Demonstrators at temporary holding area near RFK Stadium look through window of a Hertz truck after mass arrest. Detained protesters shouting from behind 8-ft tall wire fence at an emergency detention center. Metropolitan Police in riot gear guard at the emergency detention center with hippie antiwar protestors. Camera zooms to a detained woman giving “the finger” from behind a chain link fence. More prisoners enter the detention center, with the other detainees inside cheering. Smirking demonstrators after mass arrest. View of the Washington Coliseum sign. Protestors sit inside the Washington Coliseum at 1140 3rd St NE, Washington, D.C., DC 20002 Trashed food on the floor. A man drinking water in front of a metal water jug. Detainees dancing together. Police booking detainees inside coliseum, many who refused to be identified. Photos of arrested on a table.
Protestors against the Vietnam War during 1971 May Day rally in Washington DC; police arrest demonstrators.
Scenes from May 1, 1970 "Mayday" (or "May Day") anti-war rally in Washington DC, by civil disobedience groups organized against the Vietnam War, including the National Peace Action Coalition. Ground level view of U.S. Capitol building as seen from National Mall. Views among 3000 protestors gathered on the steps and grounds of the U.S. Capitol, described as radicals by the narrator. Crowd of demonstrators cheering and yelling and displaying signs. A hippie man in top hat displays a rude finger gesture to the camera and yells. He appears to be holding a hand rolled joint or cigarette. Protestors, some shirtless, dance, sway, and yell in scenes of general chaos. A protestor with a profane word painted on his forehead. View of police in riot gear helmets with shields as they watch the crowd. Close-up views of faces of demonstrators on U.S. Capitol steps. Police begin to forcibly pick up and drag away protestors who have been ordered to disperse. Protestors stay limp and heavy making it difficult and slow for police to remove them and arrest them. View of a peace demonstrator carrying a young child with a painted forehead. Police process protestors and load arrested protestors into a bus. Police officer crushes small white disks or tablets into powder on ground outside bus. Scenes after the protest of routine traffic of 1960s and early 1970s cars, taxi cabs, and pedestrians on streets of Washington DC in National Mall area, including Pennsylvania Avenue, and near various federal buildings. Citizens in 1970s fashions crossing the street. 1960s and 1970s cars on the roads. View of office workers and pedestrians on sidewalk in Washington DC going to or from work. A small protest gathering in the distance behind the workers. View of protestors gathered and assembling. Assorted views of police officers near a crowd of demonstrators. Police drag a woman protestor down the steps of a federal building. The protestor nods her head and shows peace signs with both hands as she is hauled away. A male protestor is hoisted to his feet by police after being dragged down the steps.
Police respond to anti-Vietnam War 1971 protests.
Washington DC Metropolitan Police responds to large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests conducted by the National Peace Action Coalition. Seal of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police on police car door. Police dispatcher communicates with police. Close up lit call buttons dispatch radio console. Night traffic in Washington, D.C. Police cars and motorcycles rush to the scene at night. Map at dispatch shows numbered call boxes lit. Dispatcher presses a “Monitor” button on console. Close up dispatcher talking into microphone. Silhouette view of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying at night. Evening traffic over the Memorial Bridge in Washington DC. Police cars and motorcycle moving on evening streets. Anti-war protestors taking cover behind cars at night. Reporters with motion picture cameras walking towards protests. Police standing on Canal Road fire tear gas up hill towards Rock Creek Park and Georgetown University area. Car rushes through small crowd of protestors. Finger of police dispatcher pressing the “Transmit” button on radio console. Dispatcher speaking into headset. A Volkswagen Beetle blocking a street in Georgetown. Cars barricading street near Georgetown. Protesters on the street. Protestor covering mouth to protect from tear gas. Police dome light on car. Needle on VU meter of dispatch radio console. Protesters wheeling away a dumpster. Woman moves trash can. Tear gas fired in federal area near National Mall. Policemen arrest protesters. D.C. Fire department van driving. Protesters open dumpster, spilling its contents on the street. A woman confronts a policeman. Policemen takes away an arrested man. African American man arguing. Sign says “If tear gassed WASH EYES HERE”. Policeman radioing while police run behind him. A police officer moving a trash can from the street. Police rocking a Volkswagen Beetle by its rear, trying to move it. Police officers carry a resisting protester. Burning newspaper dispenser in road. Hippie protesters, belonging to youth groups such as the May Day Tribe and Yippies, singing "Ain't Gonna Study War no More" and chanting “The whole world is watching!”
President Richard Nixon delivers "Nixon Shock" speech dealing with the economic crisis in the United States.
President Richard Nixon gives a speech on the economy from the White House in the United States. Nixon addresses the nation on the need to create more jobs, stop the rise in the cost of living, control price inflation, relieve economic stagnation, and control speculation. He announces the Job Development Act of 1971. He talks of eliminating excise taxes on automobiles and speeding up availability of some exemptions in personal income taxes. He charges Congress to introduce incentives for research and development. He orders federal spending cuts including a postponement of pay raises, a 5 percent cut in government personnel, and a 10 percent cut in foreign economic aid. He notes need to open ways for the young people entering job markets. Nixon orders a freeze on all prices and all wages in the United States for 90 days, and he calls on corporations to extend the freeze to dividends. He announces a Cost of Living committee within the government. He calls for voluntary cooperation of all Americans to control price increases after the 90 day period ends. He talks of the need to protect the strength of the American dollar and prevent international money speculation. He announces that the dollar will be defended. He announces the suspension of the convertibility of the dollar to gold, except in certain circumstances. (Later this speech was called the Nixon Shock and also the speech closing the gold window.) He says he wants to "lay to rest the bugaboo of what is called devaluation." He states the goal is stability in the dollar. Regarding trade balances, he announces a temporary 10 percent tax increase on goods imported into the United States, valid until unfair exchange rates are eliminated. He reflects on success of post World War 2 relief measures offered by the U.S. to foreign countries, increased competition with those nations, and need for less U.S. relief to them. He asks the public of America to work together to crush unemployment and economic problems.