1971 MAY DAY ANTI-VIETNAM WAR PROTEST FILM "THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING" WASHINGTON D.C. XD13614
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This color educational film is about Anti-Vietnam Protestors in Washington D.C. during late April/Early May 1971. The 1971 May Day Protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. This was made in 1971 by the Metropolitan Police Department.
Opening: Metropolitan Police logo, traffic, man pushing buttons, motorcycle cop, people walking, area map of undetermined city, helicopter, people gathering, policemen with rifles, cars stuck in traffic, news crews on the scene, car with flat tires, people ready for trouble, an injured person, an ambulance, people move a dumpster into traffic, a trash can in the street, people throw smoke bombs, dumpsters overturned, angry people, men giving orders on headsets, people shake a Volkswagen Bug, police carry a protestor, people start a fire, shirtless male protestor, people chant the title (which is shown) of the film: "The Whole World is Watching" (:08-1:50). Protestors chant and march, The Spring Offensive as it was known. People hold 'Stop the War' signs. April 24, 1971, 175,000 people marched from the White House to the Capitol to protest the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Aerial shot of the Capitol building. Demonstrators protest, sway in a tree, news crews watch. West Potomac Park. A person hammers a sign on a tree. Rennie Davis, associated with the New Left, speaks. City shots. Picture of a 'May Day' Tactical Manual. A page is turned and 'The Mayday Scenario' is shown. Sign for National Headquarters Selective Service System. Police drag a protestor. Draft cards are burned by people in the crowd, a person waves the flag of the U.S.A. while some have their fist raised. People block employee entrances, and are arrested. Demonstrators in front of the Health Education and Welfare building (1:51-6:49). People protest in front of the Dept. of Justice building. People clap and chant. Police stand by. A sign: Free America's Political Prisoners. A police officer films a man sitting up high in a building sculpture. News crews. People stage a sit in (6:50-9:44). West Potomac Park on the map and then an aerial shot of the area. Rock Creek Park on the map. Musicians play at the park. Still photos of the rock festival/protest interspersed with footage of those at the concert. A person is carried away under the influence of drugs. Over 45,000 people in the park. A police officer reviews photos of the crowd (9:45-13:17). May 2, 1971. At 6am, the police let those in the park know that they must vacate or face arrest. Police in formation. Some people get arrested (13:18-15:22). 15,000 demonstrators remained in Washington, D.C. A hand circles areas on a map with a marker. 'May Day' manual pages turned. Still picture of President Richard Nixon while his voice talks about the protests. Newspaper: The Cry Today 'We Will Stay.' Traffic during the pre-dawn hours. Police discuss with one another and with the National Guard (15:23-17:33). 6:00am on May 3, 1971, police, protestors and commuters converged. Protestors move dumpsters into traffic. Chaos as 1000 block Dupont Circle. The screen is split into fourths: vandalism, protesting, beatings, injured people all make up the morning of May 3rd. Military troops assist police. Tear gas. People packed into buses to be booked later (17:34-20:23). A van is towed, people are patted down and arrested. Arrests totaled 7,000, the most ever in one day in one area. People in a makeshift jail. People get booked and have their pictures taken. People in a police bus. RFK Stadium was the temporary holding cell for those arrested. Protestors arrested shake a fence from inside the stadium. Some were put in the Washington Coliseum, People chant, laugh, eat, kiss, and have a good time. Washington Monument as a helicopter flies by it. Remaining activists roam the Nation's Capital. Police on motorcycles. People running across streets and highways. People flash peace signs with two fingers (20:24-24:18). Police lined up in front of the Justice Dept. People do a sit in. Some are carried off by police. The U.S. Capitol Building. People on the steps on the Capitol. About 3,000 people protest, a man has profanity written on his forehead. People asked to disperse, most do not and are arrested. Police round up people. Normal life in Washington, D.C. after the protestors have left. The White House, still of President Richard Nixon. Protestors. People being dragged down the Capitol steps and arrested (24:19-27:53). End credits (27:54-28:22).
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I was there in 1971 and still remember the "motto" of the protest. "If the Government won't stop the war, We'll stop the Government." I was arrested and released along with a bunch of other people. My question after living through January 6th is why was no one charged with "insurrection" until now?
I absolutely love people power,we need more peaceful protest in 2022.. we as the people together hold the power. United we stand devided we fall.. the power is in in unity.. that's why they devide..
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I was only 16 but all students wore a name of soldiers. I remember that war and I lost a cousin and it crushed my Aunt because he only had a few days left. My brother was 17 and looked like he was 13. Great pictures from history.
May Day Demonstration .. I was there..... so were 3 million . YIP YIP YIP 1971 MAY DAY ANTI-VIETNAM WAR AND ANTI-RACISM DEMOSTRATIONS. YIP YIP YIP.
Он не погиб зря😢🇺🇸❤
I was there I supplied RENIE DAVIS WITH ORANGE SUNSHINE WORKED WEST POTOMAC PARK FIELD 1 MASH R AND THE KITCHEN
Interesting. I was there and worked at West Potomac Park, mostly in the main Info Tent, which was an HQ and tool & supply center. I mostly gave out literature, and fielded Info questions.. and helped a guy who was printing a West Potomac Newsletter. We helped build a small water reservoir which was a big corrugated metal tank on a 4 foot high platform... At the concert I helped backstage a little and was sent off in cabs to get supplies from the shops in the city. On the main day were working the George Washington University area... and around the Watergate, which if course, was not famous yet. Got busted the next day at the Justice Department. Wild Times.
And look at history now,with what we know what Nixon was up too whilst this was all going on.
The Mall hasn’t changed in years...every time I walk on the mall I think of the 1960s...and I was born in1965.
Thanks for this mostly fair documentary.
The unpredictable 1971 May Day Protest, no police brutality, 12,614 people were arrested and none injured.
I wasn't alive but so happy it happens. Also the anti-war protesters throughout the few years. We were over in Vietnam and what we did to the Vietnamese , is unforgivable. They came back and citizens treated them really bad but I don't blame them. Blood and murder. The soldiers were also did very wrong by our government. The young men came back and couldn't even afford a home or food.any came back with heroin addiction and the US government didn't even try to help. And brainwashed sheep still don't know any of this or why we went over there. We had no business. It was sick.
🇺🇸❤Америка боролась с коммунизмом 👍это не преступление. Так было надо...
@@гольф2бравобраво B.S.
These demos helped to end this cruel and unjust war/
Hello! can I used a little fragment? (8 sec) I'm making a song "Stop The War"
(I'm not famous (in fact, this is my first song), but a want help in some way with my music) PLEASE!
Those were the days !
the narrator sure isnt biased :D
The video was a production of the police department.
I was there, and according to the demonstrators, I was called a faschist pig . However, I thought I was there to protect and help people. I was very young. I still love this country that I truly do not understand. I must have been inside being brainwashed ?????? I think I am still confused.
You were there to control people so Nixon could get re-elected. That's all Nixon cared about. And the arrests were civil liberties violations. Don't be confused, you were brainwashed. Read as much as you can about this period of time from alternative papers and such to get a truer picture of the war machine that is now slaughtering around the world to make the MIC richer than they already are.
A unique time in history. There's always hope it can happen again
We were demonstrating in Austin May 1st 71. LBJ library was opening later that month so we knocked out the windows which really got the riot police upset. Major confrontation at Guadalupe and 19th later trying to reach the capital. It was a interesting day plus we were doing some acid.
My hero
I totally respect civil disobedience, as long as nobody is yelling at, or throwing rotten vegetables at already traumatized, returning soldiers.
@Grg Dps You have no clue about history and your the generation that needs to go. That was done mostly at induction and recruiting offices early on in 66. We weren't against the soldiers but the war. Your a Me generation that hasn't a clue. Your parents generation was even worse.
@Grg Dps Ignorant and hateful, not a good combination, get help!
Wow you are a real hero, thanks for your service scumbag.
hi guys.
love
Glad to see so many realists and patriots commenting on this video
I notice some people marching with little red books on their hands, as a Chinese this is familiar to me. The cultural revolution in China was a huge disaster, which was destroying China in forms of gang bullies. I think US soldiers did fight hard in Vietnam but they were just used by politicians at home. Other than ideals or politics, i think people from the east and the west should really to find a way to get along instead of blaming and fighting each other
i was there, i was also in viet nam
Tom Mcdonald May I ask when was that? Just out of curiosity
The Black Panthers were selling the books for a dollar.
SHIT load of VETS in this,no bums??.
The Loyalty Oath
the dark truth of US
I was there. This is NOT what happened.
Any for instances you can provide?
You mean the footage is fake and those were just Hollywood actors?
@@imjustpassinthru7779 touche. Robin is a liar. She was not there.
I'm with Robin all the way. If you weren't there best to STFU.
We left in a bus and held the traffic for 5 miles
"Disruptions focused on the selective service, health education and welfare, and the justice departmant"
Oh you mean the departments that have protests what every other week
How many still support communism?
Well, if you are american all of europe is "communist"
@@Skullair313 America is getting there
Most of the Dems do even though most have no idea that they are.
Well since Majority of American seeing Universal Healthcare as Communism Socialism, then the American will see all Europe as Communist 😂.
I cannot decide if this is history or propaganda
propaganda , I skipped middle school with @ 20 friends to be there . I was 14 at the time.
leel
Can this happen for Palestine since the u.s. funds israel
The bums will always lose
Damn hippies
The Military lost this one, the Hippies won as the US gave up and pulled out.
Even if the US stayed there they weren't going to win. It was a criminal war
Oh shut up america always looses
Was anything accomplished by these protests? There was other ways to avoid the Draft than this childish behavior.
Honestly nothing is ever accomplished by protests... unless the politicians are allied with the protesters to make a demonstration so they can justify changing a law! its all a dog n pony show
We stopped the war
Nixon resigned in disgrace!
@@tommcd62 WHICH WAS A BAD THING YOU IDIOT
@@thecatstrikesback2286 YES IF IT MEANT SERVING MY COUNTRY
I wonder what the people in this film think about their actions today, and I hope that the majority would be embarrassed and ashamed, especially those that were only interested in avoiding going into the military and possibly having to fight in a war, a war they could easily die in, but being drafted to support your country is part of being a citizen of your country, no matter the circumstances, it is perfectly reasonable to be scared and apprehensive, but to leave your country to avoid serving is cowardly.
I'm very proud that I participated in the protest that helped to end the slaughter of the Vietnamese and American soldiers. It was an unjust war and we made a difference.
What in the world is there to be ashamed of? It is Nixon that should be ashamed!
@@stefanhall3219 I agree that Nixon and others should be ashamed of their actions, but the point I was trying to make is that those that didn’t do their duty to serve when and where they were asked to because they did not want to is the reason they should be ashamed. Prior to December 1941 the popular opinion was that the Second World War was purely a European war and nothing to get involved with, but that soon changed after the attacks on the Hawaiian islands and Pearl Harbour, there were queues of men and women who wanted to enlist and were prepared to die for their country, then there was the draft and I guarantee that there were draft dodgers but not on the scale of that seen during the Vietnam War, and because the media at the time brought the war into the spotlight and later it brought the Anti War movement to the attention of the general population, it showed that the generation who were being called to arms did not want to serve, they did not want to fight, they had seen, for the first time in great detail what war was really like, and they didn’t want to be in a position to die doing what THEIR country asked of them and so they decided that they would not go, can you imagine, if the people of the USA had not done their duty in WWII????, I doubt that we would be communicating in this way, maybe not even in English, but they did their duty and what their country asked of them, would you have been saying that it was only the political leadership who should have been ashamed for taking the country into war????, I doubt it very much, so where is the difference between draft dodgers of WWII and the Vietnam War draft dodgers, their is no difference, they refused to do what their country asked of them, and that is why they should be ashamed of their actions, refusing to do the patriotic duty they were asked to do, repaying the country for the freedoms they have today, freedoms that their forbears fought and died for.
What would have happened if the “domino effect” had happened in the Asian region and it had fallen under communist control, it is the only good thing that came out of the Vietnam War, the domino effect didn’t happen, because had it happened because the USA couldn’t enlist/draft enough combat troops it would probably have emboldened the communist state that we could have had WWIII already and we definitely wouldn’t be communicating and expressing our opinions, we would either be under communist rule or not alive because we ended up using the nuclear deterrent weapons that would not have been a deterrent at all.
@allandavis8201 My grandfather was in the Calvery when there were horses under the command of Paton. He fought in the battle of the Bulge and Korea. I grew up in military forts. Since I was an only child we were very close and sailed kites together until Vietnam. All my childhood friends died in Vietnam for nothing but the military- industrial complex. One Thanksgiving my grandfather kicked out of the house. We went out in the front yard and had a fist fight. I got in my Volkswagen and left! I did not see him or speak to him for 25 years until I was taking care of him as he was dying from arterial sclerosis from all the cigarettes he smoked in the army. One morning as I was massaging his feet to keep from screaming in pain( we were still not talking) I felt his hand patting my head like when I was a child and he apologized about that Thanksgiving and told me that I had been right! No state has the right to draft someone and put them on a battlefield where it kill or be killed against their conscience- period! I would have fought Hitler with no objection. Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq were unjust wars!
@@allandavis8201 I think a domino effect occurred when S Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos fell in a 3 for 1 sale.