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Title on Reel (transcribed from original)
[Unidentified #11], Police ID
Date Created
1965-11-27
Reel Format
16mm
Reel Description
This reel contains footage of a daytime anti-Vietnam War picket protest in front of the United States White House held on November 27, 1965. This appears to be a group of majority white participants.. Footage focuses on those picketing, with specific emphasis on potential protest coordinators who wear orange armbands. Also included is footage of cars, police officers, and counter-protestors.
Timestamp Description
00:00:09 Footage begins.
00:00:09 Outdoor crowd of over a dozen individuals with a Mobile Comfort Station behind them.
00:00:11 Panning shot of several dozen police offers on the sidewalk, with a Police Patrol van and a Metropolitan Police Department bus.
00:00:30 Protest footage, individuals hold picket sign which read "Chicago", "Chicago Women for Peace", "Cleveland Ohio", "Steps to Peace...Stop the Bombing", "War erodes the 'Great Society'", "Honor Peace", "Stop bloodshed", "Steps to Peace...Supervised ceasefire", "Major Concessions by All", "Amherst Mass.", "Steps to Peace...New Actions to Speed Negotiations", "No More War-War Never Again", "Bring the GI's Home Now, Youth Against War & Fascism", "Steps to Peace...Respect the 1954 Geneva Accords". Some of the footage focuses on individuals wearing orange armbands, likely designating them as protest coordinators or security.
00:02:23 Footage of police officers and cars parked on the street, followed by footage of a car driving away.
00:02:44 Footage of a white individual in a blue suit recording the protest.
00:02:49 Footage of protestors with signs, some duplicates of previous signs, some new: "If You Wish to Live As Brothers Let the Arms Fall From Your Hands".
00:02:53 Line of cars driving away on Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:03:00 Footage of large crowd in Lafayette Square Park across the street. Footage of counter-protest with signs: "Halt Communist Sedition-Mongering Activities in U.S., Outlaw the Communist Party Here and Now, We Support Our Boys in Vietnam", "Why String ALong With Vietcong", Mao Wants Us To Backdown Too!!", "We Support US Policy", "In War There Is No Substitute For Victory, Fight to Win in Vietnam", "Free Kerosene, P.S. Matches Too", "Don't Be Misled by a Red", "'Quoth the Raven: Never More'".
00:03:18 Footage goes to a tan screen.
00:03:52 Partial footage of hands and paper.
00:03:57 Footage ends.
Event Description
On November 27, 1965, some 25,000 individuals protested in Washington, D.C. against the war in Vietnam. Protestors marched in circles on the sidewalk in front of the White House, then marched to the Washington Monument to hear speakers call for a ceasefire and an end to the war. Counter protestors from the American Nazi Party were also present. Other identified organizations included the American Party of Boston, Youth Against War and Fascism, and Veterans for Peace in Viet Nam (Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 28, 1965).
Runtime
00:04:14
Corporate Name Subject
American Nazi Party
Topical Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements; Protest movements; Anti-war demonstrations; Demonstrations; Crowds; Student movements; Student protesters; Students--Political activity; Signs and signboards; Neo-Nazis; Neo-Nazism; Police; Police patrol--Surveillance operations; Electronic surveillance; Video surveillance
City/Location
Washington (D.C.)
Genre
color films (visual works)
Local Genre
moving image
Type
Moving Image
Digital Format
video/mp4
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Richmond Police Department Surveillance Collection
Source
Anti-Vietnam War Protest in Washington, D.C., 1965 November 27
File Name
VCU_M571_151.mp4