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Stop the War
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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 Committee Against the War in Vietnam, was one of the first demonstrations against the war in Madison.
October 15, 1965
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Anti-War Interview
October 16, 1965
At a sit-down demonstration at Truax Air Force Base, a journalist interviews one of the demonstrators.
No Taxes for War
April 15, 1966
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 front of the IRS Office in Milwaukee.
Staughton Lynd at an Anti-War Demonstration
March 26, 1966
Standing near the Lincoln Statue on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Historian Staughton Lynd speaks to a nighttime, anti-war demonstration on Bascom Hill. Lynd was one of the or...
Mothers Against the War
1966
Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
North Vietnamese Children
December 12, 1965
Nurse caring for two North Vietnamese children who were wounded by U.S. bombing. This official North Vietnamese photograph was released about June 1, 1966, and received by the National Coordinating...
Demonstration at Badger Ammunition Plant
March 25, 1966
Anti-Vietnam War protestors demonstrate outside the Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Baraboo.
