Massive parades to protest Vietnam policy are held in New York and San Francisco. In New York, police estimated that 100,000 to 125,000 people listened to speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock. Prior to the march, nearly 200 draft cards were burned by youths in Central Park. In San Francisco, black nationalists led a march, but most of the 20,000 marchers were white.
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Apr 15, 1967:
Antiwar protests held in New York and San Francisco
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This Week in History, Apr 15 - Apr 21
- Apr 15, 1967
- Antiwar protests held in New York and San Francisco
- Apr 15, 1970
- U.S. 1st Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam
- Apr 16, 1968
- Johnson arrives in Honolulu
- Apr 16, 1972
- United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
- Apr 17, 1972
- First antiwar protest of the year is conducted
- Apr 17, 1975
- Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge
- Apr 18, 1969
- Nixon says prospects for peace in Vietnam are better
- Apr 19, 1967
- Air Force pilot cited for bravery
- Apr 19, 1971
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstrate
- Apr 20, 1970
- Nixon announces more troop withdrawals
- Apr 20, 1971
- "Fragging" on the rise in U.S. units
- Apr 21, 1965
- Intelligence reveals North Vietnamese units in South Vietnam
- Apr 21, 1975
- Thieu flees Saigon as Xuan Loc falls
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