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DimensionsSheet: 8 x 10 15/16 in. (20.3 x 27.8 cm)
Image: 7 x 8 5/8 in. (17.8 x 21.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.200
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsANTI-DC-075 2500 (verso l,l graphite)
MarksDATE [illegible] ED MAY 23 1972 11-29-76 (verso u,l stamp ink and pen ink)
Groppi Arrested: Antiwar leader Father James Groppi is taken into custody by police today outside the Pentagon. He was among demonstrators who attempted to enter the building shortly after their legal permit to demonstrate expired. A number of others wre also arrested, May 22, 1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Peace demonstrators who have been keeping a 24-hour vigil at the Pentagon this week were placed under arrest. They were loaded on a bus to be taken to the United States District Court for Northern Virginia in nearby Alexandria. These two were arrested while climbing a wall into a flower bed in front of the building, May 12, 1967
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1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Breaking Camp: Antiwar demonstrators, one dragging a tent, leave their Potomac Park campsite early Sunday after they and about 15,000 others were routed by police. Militant leaders say there will be more demonstrations Monday in Washington, May 3, 1971
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Stopped at White House Gate: Leaders of a protest demonstration against United States participation in the Vietname war were halted today at a White House gate when they attempted to enter to see President Johnson. Dr. Benjamin Spock, at left center with glasses, one of the leaders of the demonstration, is shown reading a statement to a White House aide, May 17, 1967
1967
Image Not Available for Washington Demonstrators Arrested: police made their first arrests of participants in the Poor People's Campaign today for demonstrating outside the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Fifteen of approximately 200 marchers were charged with refusing to heed police orders to stop singing and praying outside the building. Here, police frisk several of the marchers before putting them in the paddy wagon. Those arrested were charged with the use of "loud, threatening or abusive language on capitol grounds.", May 23, 1968
Washington Demonstrators Arrested: police made their first arrests of participants in the Poor People's Campaign today for demonstrating outside the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Fifteen of approximately 200 marchers were charged with refusing to heed police orders to stop singing and praying outside the building. Here, police frisk several of the marchers before putting them in the paddy wagon. Those arrested were charged with the use of "loud, threatening or abusive language on capitol grounds.", May 23, 1968
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1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Take Control: District of Columbia police charge into a group of yippy antiwar demonstrators who attempted to block the parade route of President Richard Nixon in Washington today, January 20, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Demonstrator at U.S. Capitol: About 75 demonstrators forced their way into the gallery of the United States Capitol yesterday and were quickly ejected by the Capitol police. Three of the demonstrators were clubbed and six men and two women were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. The demonstrators came to protest the defeat of a bill to control rats in the slums. Police are shown removing one of the demonstrators from the Capitol grounds, August 7, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Clear Resurrection City: Police search two residents of Resurrection City, Poor People's Campaign camp, today as they took possession of the area. About 50 arrests were made at the camp, where the residents had been told they could no longer stay on public land. At the Capitol, other police arrested the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, the campaign leader, Washington DC, June 24, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Chase Demonstrators: Leaders of a group of residents from the neighborhood Harlem in New York, argue today with the police before being cleared from the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, while the cameras of representatives and senators have been sitting. The trouble started with a singing and clapping demonstration in the gallery of the House of Representatives shortly after the House adjourned for the day, August 7, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Image Not Available for Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Action at the Pentagon: Three United States marshals, one swinging a night stick, down an antiwar demonstrator who tried to break through security lines today at the Pentagon. Other marshals hustle off another demonstrator at right. In background are military police, October 21, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Policemen forcibly remove an antiwar demonstrator from the front of the Pentagon. The demonstrator was grabbed yesterday when a group of protestors tried to return to the building entrance after being removed earlier, May 13, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Young boys arrested for stealing, NYC
Leonard Freed
1972