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.
Hippie protesters walking through the streets of Washington, D.C. as they join the May Day Protests on early Monday morning, May 3rd, 1971 to protest the Vietnam War. A hand circles areas on a map showing the protesters’ target areas in Washington DC. View of the May Day protest manual shows Washington DC’s traffic circles and bridges for reference to protestors. Still image of United States President Richard Nixon as he says, "we’re going to see to it that the thousands of government workers, who have a right to go to work peacefully are not interfered with by those militants, those few militants, who in the name of demonstrating for peace abroad presume that they have the right to break the peace at home." View of the May 4, 1971 front page of The Washington Daily News with headline, “The Cry Today; “We Will Stay””. Traffic in Washington DC before sunrise. Seal of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police on police car door. Police officer speaks to a federal soldier, saying, "I'll start working on my men, and I'll be back very shortly." Federal troops at night in formation. Hippie demonstrators with a flag walk past a drug store at night, probably in Dupont Circle. Predawn traffic on Key Bridge at night with Marriott Key Bridge sign in background. Predawn traffic in Washington, D.C. with three motorcycle cops on standby. Soldiers on bridge, possibly the Whitehurst Freeway. Rush hour traffic on Memorial Bridge heading towards Lincoln Memorial with federal troops standing guard on bridge. Rush hour traffic over Key Bridge with Rosslyn, VA in background. Camera pans from the "Time to Save" sign on the Dupont National Bank building at 1369 Connecticut Ave. NW, to the Dupont Circle fountain. D.C. metropolitan police talk to federal troops in front of the Dupont Circle fountain. A mosaic of moving images showing demonstrations in Dupont Circle, Washington Circle, and Georgetown. Police push protestors against squad car to search and arrest them. A police officer confiscates items, such as keys, tickets, and screwdriver, from an arrested demonstrator. Arrested demonstrators raise their fists inside the police bus. Police order demonstrators to leave the area. Black police woman searches a woman hippie protester. Hippies arrested as they lean against bus with hands up. Protestor van towed away. A black policewoman conducts a search on a young woman. Demonstrators board a police bus after their arrest. Demonstrators board the back of a Hertz truck used by the police. Demonstrators detained in an emergency detention center near RFK Stadium. A radical flag flying at the detention center. A page pertaining to “Arrest and Jail” in the “May Day Tactical Manual” for participants on the 1971 May Day Protests. Police officer take photographs of arrested demonstrators standing on street with hands zip tied behind their backs. Arrested hippies smile as their pictures are taken. United States Park Police officer looks at watch while writing arrest reports. Demonstrators wave from bus as it drives away after mass arrest.
United States Marine Corps trucks parked on both sides of a dirt road in Nevada, United States, during training exercise in Vietnam War period. Mountains are seen in the background. Marines on top of a gun truck. Soldiers fasten ropes in truck. Some buildings, poles, and snow are seen in the background. A Marine in gun turret of gun truck. He aims the machine gun of the gun truck. A reporter interviews a Marine. The Marine talks to the reporter holding a microphone. African American Marine sitting on truck with fellow Marines.
United States Marine Corps trucks parked in the middle of a dirt road in Nevada, United States. Telephone poles and mountains on roadside are seen. A reporter interviews a Marine standing in front of a gun truck. The Marine talks to the reporter holding a microphone. A young Marine manning the gun turret of the gun truck. Camera zooms into the face of the Marine being interviewed by reporter. The Marine walks away after the interview finished. (Vietnam War period.)
Shows crowd at dedication of New Douglas Blackout Airplane factory. Hoarding of Defense Plant can be seen on stage. Huge sign over stage says, "Defense Plant. Part of the Arsenal of Democracy." A-20 aircraft lined up in front of factory and crowd looking on. B-19 aircraft flies by. (Early in World War 2 period.)
Aircraft being delivered from United States to Britain during World War 2 as part of lend-lease program: Liberator bombers, Harvard-IIs, Bostons (British A-20), Lockheed P-38 and B-17E taking off for England piloted by the U.S. Army Air Corps Ferry Command.
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