> On Jan 17, 2024, at 5:23 PM, John Obrien <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just want to correct your stating that the Vietnam Antiwar Mass Marches never
> exceeded 300,000 - 400,000.
Hi John, The National Park Service estimates are probably the most reliable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rallies_and_protest_marches_in_Washington,_D.C.
I was surprised to see that they estimated the Fall 1969 Moratorium had 600k
participants. But I thought that April 24, 1971 was the largest demonstration
because that was the Kool Aid that the SWP was serving that year.
In Out Now, Fred Halstead estimated 750k for April 24th 1971 and said it was
the largest in US history (p. 543), but the April 30, 1971 Militant Newspaper
estimated that the 1969 National Moratorium mach in D.C. had 800,000.
So, take you pick:
https://safe.duckduckgo.com/?q=april+24+1971+demonstration+park+service+crowd+size&kp=1&atb=v408-1&ia=web
shows the range of estimates from newspapers for April 24th, 1971. A research
paper,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RW3PvWAPvQbPr7d_Q-0HquIqcO6DDE2D/view?usp=sharing,
gives some background on estimating crowd sizes and has a table with yet
another set of numbers.
Mark
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