Added at the lincoln memorial, then marched to the pentagon. More than 600 protesters were arrested, including norman mailer, who would later when a Pulitzer Prize win a Pulitzer Prize for his book on the march. The vietnam war, how much dissent. To theines resistance war, with footage of demonstrations, interviews, and portions of a press conference by blended johnson. They raise their voices. Hundreds of protesters are sometimes arrested area are sometimes arrested. Which perhaps go beyond the limits of rebelliousness. Week, the vietnam war. How much dissent . Heret that story, with that story, our abc correspondent. John hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. Hardly a day passes when those who support the war wonder how much dissent is too much . How far can they go when expressing this opposition . The question is as old as socrates. Opinion familiar as the as Oliver Wendell holmes that the right of free speech does no
Dissent . It examines resistance to the war, with footage of demonstrations, interviews, and portions of a press conference by lyndon johnson. They raise their voices. They march against the government. Definessenters themselves with this kind of protest activity. Some go farther, burning Selective Service jobs and burning the american flag. Hundreds of protesters are sometimes arrested. Which activities fall in the bonds of lawful dissent and which go beyond the rabbits go beyond the limits and the, lawless or rebellious . The wide world of people and events. This week, the vietnam war how much dissent . Here with that story, our abc correspondent. John hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. Hardly a day passes when those who support the war wonder how much dissent is too much . Those who oppose it asked themselves how far can i go in expressing this opposition . Question how much dissent is as old as socrates. It is as f
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You just try to put it behind you and go on with life. Did you have to deal with people who were critical of our involvement in vietnam or did you just not talk about it at all . Botheredvery few who most of them didnt know that i was involved in vietnam. We just went about life. I was never really in that kind of situation where people work trying were trying to attack me or anything like that. You enjoyed your time talking to the public . I loved it. Im think that the archives to this. My grandson and i were down at the wall the other day. It was a wonderful experience for them. I ran across a man down there and he said where were you in vietnam and i said i was at camp he said, were you a bikini . I said yeah. How do you get that . He said, well, youre a pilot. He was in the three 61st 361st, the pink panthers. Both of our companies were in the central highlands. He supported the fourth division. We supported artillery units and the special forces out of pontoon. With the cobra unit
Wrote one of our newsletters and it suddenly occurred to me that for people ,ow who are our age then vietnam is to them, chronologically, what world war i was for us. But not know about you, world war i did not weigh heavily on my imagination at all. The question is, why is vietnam still weighing on our imaginations . It is not so hard to understand. Faults of the ken did touch on it the fact that it is an unresolved question in this society. Hopefully when we have that discussion later this afternoon ,e will talk about the ways intentionally or not, it has opened the door for far more discussion. First, the editor of the vietnam 1967 series. [applause] thank you so much and thanks to i believe there are a few people who contributed here in the audience to our project. In a truncated version in the paper tomorrow, and oral history of the march on the pentagon. Obviously i was not there. Maybe it is obvious. [laughter] my job is to give the blueprint so that for those of you who were no