Anti-war demonstrators gather during the 1971 May Day protests in Washington D.C.. Aerial view of Hains Point and protesters camping out in West Potomac Park in April, 1971. A man nails a May Day Protest poster on a tree, probably along Constitution Avenue. The May Day poster reads, "If our people fight one tribe at a time, all will be killed...Come to Washington, D.C. May 1-7." “The country should respond from coast-to-coast, with demonstrations and universities and communities across this country!” says Rennie Davis, an anti-war activist and one of the “Chicago Seven” defendants charged for anti-Vietnam War protests. Still image views of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the Milwaukee River and the domes of the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, and streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cars driving on roads near Washington D.C. Women walking across lawn near federal building in Washington, D.C. A tactical manual for “May Day”, with an image of Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader who resisted against United States government policies, on its cover. A page title of the “May Day Tactical Manual” is written “The Mayday Scenario Saturday, April 24: Algonquin Peace City Opens”. Map of Washington DC showing the main targets of the May Day protests- the Selective Service System agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice Department and the Health, Education & Welfare Department. Sign reading, “National Headquarters Selective Service System”. Demonstrators from the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference attempt to break into the Selective Service System headquarters (1724 F Street NW in Washington, DC). Guards prevent protesters from entering the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters hold burning money and burn draft cards in protest outside the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters chant "no more war" and raise their hands with clenched fists and peace signs, toss the American flag around, and sing a parody version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A security guard snatches the American flag and brings it into the building. Burned draft cards posted on the main entrance of the Selective Service System headquarters. Again the next morning, demonstrators block doors to the Selective Service system headquarters, causing policemen to drag them out of the way by force. Trash from protestors on street. African American civil rights activist Hosea Williams yelling at police, saying, you are "locking up people without telling them anything, and that is wrong! It is wrong!” Protesters outside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A May Day collective protester surrounded by policemen. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare sign. Protesters rip down a wall inside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policeman leads away an arrested man from the protest at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policemen escort an arrested African American protester Hosea Williams, raising a clenched fist (black power), as he yells to onlookers, "I got it done, I got it done!". Protestors at the Department of Justice yell "free all political prisoners" and hold various signs saying “1984”, “We are all P.O.W” and chanting outside the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation building in Washington DC. Protestors clap and sing "Amen, amen, amen."
General William C Westmoreland visits 32nd Air Defense headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany. General Westmoreland arrives at parade field. He salutes Honor Guard. Band plays and marches. The General enters the 32nd Air Defense Command Headquarters building. Board reads '32nd Army Air Defense Command Headquarters'. General Westmoreland comes out of the building
United States 82nd Air Borne Division troops march during a victory parade in New York City United States. U.S. Army Major General James M. Gavin and the 82nd Airborne assembled at Washington Square. Gavin leads the parade and gives order to lead the march. The division marches along Fifth Avenue with the Washington Square Arch in the background. Crowds line the sidewalks. Thirteen thousand men of 82nd Division march down Fifth Avenue. People watch the parade from windows and roof tops of buildings.Some spectators lean out over balcony to get better view. New York City mounted police and foot patrolmen maintain crowd control. Sherman tanks pass the statue of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, at East 60th Street. A formation of C-47 aircraft, towing gliders, flies overhead. Troops pass a review stand in front of the New York Public Library, in which are seen New York Governor, Thomas E. Dewey and New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer. Nearby, Former Mayor and Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia review the parade with a group of Military General Officers The American flag flies from a building. The parade includes armored vehicles and 45 ton self propelled 8 inch howitzers. (One of them has "Georgie Patton" painted on its side.)fly overhead. Vehicles, troops and color guards pass in review.
Sniper fire on 82nd Airborne Military Police in the Dominican Republic during a civil war. 82nd Airborne Military Police at a busy traffic control point are attacked by harassing rifle fire. U.S. Army and civilian vehicles pass an intersection. Civilians walk along a street in the foreground. Soldiers take cover against a building. One soldier starts running across storefronts. Corner with rubble on street. Two soldiers with rifles near a store. People run across the intersection. An American soldier walks near a storefront. A civilian carrying a package walks calmly across a street. Other civilians on the street. 82nd Airborne soldiers run from a gas station. U.S. Army trucks driven. Jeeps come to a stop. The Americans run around a street corner.
United States Army Air Forces 82nd Fighter Group in Italy during World War II. U.S. Lieutenant General Carl Andrew Spaatz and other officers in a field. Lieutenant General Spaatz decorates a personnel of 82nd Fighter Group and shakes hands. Men of the 82nd Fighter Group lined up in a field as Lt. Gen. Spaatz pins up medals onto them.
Counting of votes after the 82nd Congress Elections. Men and women calculate the results. An Election Commissioner impounds and rechecks the voting machines. Two men seen inspecting voting machines. New York Republican candidate W Kingsland Macy smokes a pipe. View of New York Democratic candidate Ernest Greenwood. Newspaper headlines about Governor Democrat G Williams' win against Harry Kelly. Williams shakes hands with a supporter. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. The 82nd Congress in session. View of senate chamber as narrator describes near even Democratic and Republican split in the Senate. Former Governor of New York Democrat Herbert Lehmen returns to the Senate. Closeup view of Lehman. View of the Congress House of Representatives in session. Additional exterior views of the Capitol dome and the Capitol building in Washington DC.
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