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Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration

Date: 1972
Description: A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S...
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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
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Helicopter Power

Date: 02 1966
Description: Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r...
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John Kerry

Date: 1971
Description: Portrait of John Kerry taken during his years as an active member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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John Kerry Speaking at a Rally

Date: 05 1971
Description: John Kerry, then a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, stands at the microphone, flanked by another Vietnam veteran at a rally to "Dump the War."
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Dead Vietnamese Man

Date: 1961
Description: A dead Vietnamese man lays on the ground as a paratrooper prepares to fire bullets into the body.
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Sea Swallows Ambush

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Description: A man is positioned in crab-laden mud in which the Sea Swallows set up "the toughest ambush I've ever covered". Vietnam.
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Sea Swallows with Flag

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Description: Two members of the Sea Swallows display a captured Viet Cong flag. Vietnam.
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Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle dressed in military clothing wading through a swamp in Vietnam.
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Laird in Vietnam

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, wearing a fatigue uniform, shaking hands with a military officer during a tour of Vietnam.
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Vietnam Strategy Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam.
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Waiting in the Oval Office

Date: 07 22 1971
Description: President Richard Nixon speaking on the telephone in the Oval Office of the White House, while Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is waiting to report on hi...
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Laird and South Vietnamese Soldier

Date: 1971
Description: The Secretary of Defense presentoing a medal to a South Vietnamese soldier during a South Asian tour.
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Vietnam Veteran in Wheelchair

Date: 1973
Description: Bill Henshaw, a disabled, wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran, at a Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstration during the Nixon Inauguration in 1973.
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Men Acting Like Ducks at Highlander

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Description: A group of men imitating ducks, participating in a theatrical performance. A man wielding a shotgun is in the background, and is wearing a hat bearing the ...
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
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No Taxes for War

Date: 04 15 1966
Description: At a demonstration against the payment of taxes to support the war in Vietnam, a young man burns his check to the Internal Revenue Service. Probably in fro...
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Anti-War Interview

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: At a sit-down demonstration at Truax Air Force Base, a journalist interviews one of the demonstrators.
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Stop the War

Date: 10 15 1965
Description: Opponents of the War in Vietnam protesting at Truax Air Force Base. This event, which was probably sponsored by local members of the National Coordinating...

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