Jan Rose Kasmir at a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. – 1967
People all throughout the United States were opposed to the U.S. going to war in Vietnam. Protests happened in every major city and many people would take busses for hundreds of miles to join in. On October 21st of 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to voice their feelings about the horrors of war. People of every color and class marched toward the Pentagon when military personnel was called in. Demonstrators clashed with soldiers as violence broke out. For two days, the group surrounded a line of military soldiers and over 680 people were arrested.