September 21, 1969 - A 

chanting crowd of some 12,000 
marched 
from 
Michigan, 

Stadium following yesterday’s 
football game to a peace rally in 
the Diag.

“This march expresses the 

substantial amount of anti-war 
feeling in the United States,” said 
Gene Gladstone, co-ordinator 
for the New Mobilization, which 
sponsored the march. He hailed 
the march as a huge success 
which far exceeded his original 
estimates.

Six marchers in the vanguard 

bore a symbolic casket holding 
the corpse of Uncle Sam. On 
the casket was a Nixon poster 
bearing the message “Would you 
buy a used war from this man?” 
The main block of marchers was 
preceded by a huge banner which 
read “End the War Now, Bring 

the Troops Home.”

Escorted by Ann Arbor Police 

motorcyclists and children on 
bicycles, the rally wound its way 
down East Hoover St. past two 
fraternity parties and on to the 
Diag. Marchers raised chants of 
“Peace Now” and “Join Us,” aided 
by a loudspeaker. Participants 
from SDS and Resistance added 
their own chants of “Ho Ho Ho 
Chi Minh, NLF is going to win.”

Few 
incidents 
occurred 

between peace marchers and 
those who looked on, except for a 
few anti-marcher catcalls. Police 
averted a fistfight between a 
march monitor and an onlooker 
in front of the Michigan Union.

About five thousand people 

gathered in the Diag to hear 
speakers and two rock bands, 
“UP” and “Shiva.” who set up 
on the steps of the Graduate 
Library.

Arbor City Councilman Len 

Quenon kicked off the rally by 
calling “overcommitment to the 
military and racial injustice” 
the “twin evils of our time.” He 
emphasized that “these evils can 
be found not only in Washington 
but right here in Washtenaw 
County.”

Quenon 
drew 
enthusiastic 

response from the crowd with 
comments critical of Washtenaw 
County Sheriff Douglas Harvey.

Main speaker was well-known 

peace activist David Dellinger, 
one of the “Chicago Eight.” He 
drew on a conversation of two 
years ago with Ho Chi Minh 
who, Dellinger said, “is probably 
loved by more Americans than 
either LBJ or Richard Nixon. 
Ho Chi Minh has given us the 
strength 
and 
determination 

with which to continue our 
struggle.”

Saying Nixon is “part way 

down the slippery slide which 

drove 
LBJ 
out 
of 
office,” 

Dellinger predicted that the 
November march on Washington 
“will finish the job.”

Dr. Sidney Peck, steering 

committee member of national 
Mobilization, 
demanded 

“immediate and unconditional 
withdrawal from Vietnam and 
the dismantling of all our bases 
there.” He predicted that one 
and one-half million Americans 
will participate in the November 
action in Washington.

Optimism 
regarding 
the 

success 
of 
the 
anti-war 

movement was expressed by 
Andrew Pulley, organizer of 
“GI’s United Against the War 
in Vietnam” at Fort Jackson, 
South Carolina. “We are losing 
in Vietnam and losing at home,” 
said Pulley, who also pointed 
out that many servicemen are 
being won over to the side of 
those against the war.

July 31, 1971 - Two former 

University students, David 
Scott 
and 
James 
Irwin, 

landed safely and accurately 
on the moon yesterday. Scott 
opened a lunar module hatch 
to look at the canyon banks, 
boulder fields and mountains 
around them and exclaimed 
poetically: “Oh, boy, what a 
view!”

The 
men 
achieved 
the 

moon landing at 5:16 p.m. EST 
to begin one of man’s greatest 
scientific 
expeditions, 
an 

exploration by car to the 
edge of a deep canyon and 
the base of the highest lunar 
mountains.

Before 
they 
got 
there, 

however, they ran into a 
minor difficulty with their 
spacecraft, 
as 
they 
have 

several times during their 
journey. 
A 
power 
cable 

connected from the command 
ship to the lunar lander 
broke loose. The lander was 
unable to be separated from 
the command ship until the 
command ship’s pilot Alfred 
Worden, 
found 
the 
loose 

connection and fixed it.

Back on Earth, Irwin’s 

parents read passages from 
the Bible and clutched each 
other’s hands until lander 
dropped down safely. His wife 
Mary will miss most, if not all 
of the first moonwalk today 
to fulfill a church teaching 
commitment.

“Jim is committed to his 

mission and I’m committed to 
mine,” she explained. “In the 
meantime, I’m going to bed,” 
she added, gently nudging the 
hordes of newsmen out of her 
home.

April 4, 1972 - Ann Arbor 

has always had a reputation for 
mixing politics and culture. In 
the past it has combined street 
and youth culture with radical 
politics — political rallies and 
guerrilla theater, rock and roll 
music and political speeches.

But this past weekend Ann 

Arbor saw a variation on the 
old theme — the mixing of 
youth culture and traditional, 
electoral politics in an attempt 
to keep voters keyed up for 
yesterday’s city elections.

Using rock concerts and a 

“Be-in,” organizers did their 
best to try and give people 
staying 
over 
the 
Easter 

weekend something to do. And 
their best was very good.

Uniquely, 
this 
weekend’s 

activities were not aimed at 
ending the war or stopping 
racism; they were not concerned 
with corporate recruiting or 
classified research. The main 
focus was getting out the vote.

The first part of the weekend 

festivities 
was 
not 
really 

directly related to the election. 
It was the First Annual Ann 
Arbor Hash Festival and it was 
a rousing success.

Despite what the police say, 

despite what the University 
says, and despite what the rest 
of the media says, there was a 
huge crowd braving the snow 
and cold to be out on the Diag. 
And there was a vast quantity 

of grass and hash consumed. 
But that was just setting the 
scene for the rock-and-roll bash 
at Hill Aud. Saturday night. 
Featuring the Guardian Angel, 
Wilderness 
Road, 
Spencer 

Davis and Detroit, the concert 
mixed a fine evening of music 
with constant reminders to get 
out and vote.

Guardian Angel opened the 

night, playing some fairly good 
but not exceptional rocking 
music. GA has been around the 
Ann Arbor-Detroit area for a 
long time under other names, 
and they usually do a pretty 
solid show. There were some 
good vocals and some nice 
arrangements but nothing new, 
nothing exciting about their 
music.

Happily, 
the 
same 
can’t 

be said for the next group, 
Wilderness 
Road. 
Coming 

from 
Chicago, 
Wilderness 

Road played some of the most 
imaginative and interesting 
rock I have heard lately. They 
have two very fine guitar 
players who switch off playing 
lead while the bass and drums 
provide solid, steady backing.

Mixing 
in 
some 
funny 

commercials and an Easter 
miracle, Wilderness Road kept 
the audience laughing and 
dancing in the aisles.

While the equipment was 

being changed, some of the 
city council candidates came 
onstage to urge people to vote, 
and make the youth vote felt.

The next act was a surprise 

for 
most 
people. 
Spencer 

Davis, who is best known for 
some big rock hits when Stevie 
Winwood was part of the 
group, came out and did an all 
acoustical set.

The old country and country 

blues numbers Davis did give 
the audience a nice break in 
what was otherwise a very 
high energy rock and roll 
evening. 
Despite 
spending 

almost as much time tuning his 
guitars as he did playing, Davis 
and his two backers on rhythm 
and electric bass showed a 
good understanding of the 
quite, simple music of the back-
woods.

Just before the next act was 

introduced one of their roadies 
came to the mike “cause I got a 
point to make.” His point was 
to urge everyone to register to 
vote.

“I’m not saying vote, I’m just 

saying register cause that’s 
where they pick the juries 
from,” he said. “If we ever want 
to change this country it won’t 
be at the polls, it’ll be in the 
courts - so register.”

Then came the headliners — 

Detroit, featuring Mitch Ryder, 
If Chicago typifies the music 
of the city of Chicago to some 
extent, Detroit represents the 
city of Detroit even more so. 
With their hard-driving, kick- 
ass street rock and roll De- troit 
is Detroit.

6 — Friday, September 15, 2017
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Bicentennial

ALAN SHACKELFORD

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post-Game rally on Diag
‘U’ men land on moon

Mixing youth culture, electoral politics

Massive rallies stay peaceful

Oct 16, 1969 - One million 

Americans 
across 
the 
country 

opposed to the Vietnam War 
marked Moratorium Day yesterday 
with demonstrations that spread 
from college campuses to city street 
corners. The demonstrations were 
generally peaceful, with scattered 
minor 
incidents 
of 
violence 

reported.

With black armbands and anti-

war buttons, participants of varying 
beliefs, militant and moderate, 
young and old, attended rallies, 
solemn vigils, marches and teach-
ins. No official estimate of the total 
participation was available, but 
reports from all over showed that 
perhaps more than one million 
Americans took an active part. 
Some Americans opposed to the 
moratorium held counter-demon-
strations, contending the anti-war 
protesters were acting against the 
national interest. Flag raisings, 
picket-lines, and burning headlights 
showed 
displeasure 
with 
the 

moratorium, which one southern 
mayor said was “giving aid and 
comfort to the enemy.” In Boston, a 
crowd police estimated at more than 
90,000 jammed the city’s Commons 
for aseries of speeches.

Sen. George McGovern. D-S. 

Dak.), told the cheering crowd “the 
most urgent and responsible act of 
American citizenship in 1969 is to 
bring all possible pressure on the 
administration to order our troops 
out of Vietnam now.”

Nearby, addressing the World 

Affairs 
Council, 
Sen. 
Edward 

Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared the 
United States should announce “an 
irrevocable decision” to withdraw 
all ground combat troops from 
Vietnam within one year, and other 
forces by the end of 1972.

In the nation’s capital, a number 

of 
demonstrations 
took 
place 

throughout the day, topped by a 
candle light march to the White 
House.

More than 3,000 persons, mostly 

young, staged a mass demonstration 
in front of the National Selective 
Service headquarters. Sitting in the 
street, they blocked traffic. Police 

stationed at intersections and along 
the sidewalks helped marshals 
keep order. Violence did break out, 
however when a group of young 
black militants at an afternoon rally 
near the White House attempted 
to break into the White House 
grounds.

Police armed with clubs made 

a number of arrests and cleared 
the demonstrators out of the 
area,sealing off a block in front of 
the Capitol.

The Washington demonstrators 

saved the best for last as 30,000 
hushed, attentive persons huddled 
on the damp, cold slope of t h e 
Washington Monument grounds 
to hear Mrs. Martin Luther King 
condemn the war.

“We spend billions of dollars for 

destruction in Vietnam,” she said, 
“but we refuse to recognize the 
necessity for life at home.” She said 
the war has destroyed the hopes of 
black and poor Americans.

After her speech, the protesters 

marched four and five abreast in a 
candlelight parade up Pennsylvania 
Avenue to the White House. In front 
of the mansion, Mrs. King lighted a 

foot-high candle.

The procession was orderly and 

the marchers obeyed traffic signals 
and police instructions.

In Detroit, mounted police were 

called to unsnarl traffic and contain 
a crowd of about 5,000 drawn to 
Kennedy Square for a protest. Some 
scattered incidents of violence broke 
out when a militant right-wing 
organization, Breakthrough, moved 
in for a counter-demonstration.

In New York City, Mayor John 

Lindsay, who had proclaimed the 
day a day of mourning, ordered the 
flags flown at half-mast. He was 
cheered as he told a Greenwich 
Village crowd that the Nixon 
administration was on a “dangerous, 
self-defeating course.”

Lindsay was attacked for his 

actions by his two opponents in 
the city’s mayoral race. Republican 
candidate 
John 
Marchi 
called 

Lindsay’s proclamation “a New 
York version of Dunkirk.” Democrat 
Mario Procaccino called it “ill-
advised.”

More 
than 
10,000 
persons 

jammed the Wall Street area for 
a demonstration which included 

the reading of a list of names of the 
American soldiers killed in the War.

Bill Moyers, press secretary to 

former President Lyndon B. Johnson 
and now publisher of the Long 
Island newspaper Newsday, called 
the moratorium a “coming together, 
at last, against the divisiveness that 
has riddled us since the advent of the 
war.”

In Chicago, where the ‘Chicago 

8’ are being prosecuted for their 
actions in last year’s Democratic 
convention 
demonstrations, 

Federal Judge Julius Hoffman and 
marshals thwarted attempts by the 
defendants, except for Tom Hayden, 
to commemorate the day.

The defendants appeared in 

court wearing black armbands and 
one of them began reading a roster 
of the war-dead, but was stopped.

Hayden, national founder of 

Students for a Democratic Society, 
last night spoke at the stadium rally 
in Ann Arbor.

Defendant 
David 
Dellinger 

jumped to his feet later in the 
proceedings and asked for a moment 
of silence in respect for the war 
dead, but was shouted down by the 

prosecution attorney and the judge.

In St. Paul, Minn. former Vice 

President 
Hubert 
Humphrey 

attended a moratorium rally at 
Macalester 
College, 
where 
he 

teaches part-time. He did not 
speak, but listened to Prof. Thomas 
Grissom call the U.S. government 
“the primary obstacle to peace in 
the world.”

Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn) 

who 
sought 
the 
presidential 

nomination last year as an anti-
war candidate, spoke to 10,000 
persons at Rutgers University, New 
Brunswick, N.J. McCarthy declared 
that although Nixon might hold 
military withdrawal from Vietnam 
to be a disaster, history “would call 
it a sign of great statesmanship.”

In Vietnam the only battlefield 

protest reported reported was 
the wearing of black armbands 
by members of a platoon of U.S. 
in-fantrymen on patrol near Chu 
Lai, some 360 miles northeast 
of Saigon. There was no way of 
knowing 
immediately, 
however, 

if there were similar antiwar 
expressions by other GTs scattered 
throughout the country.

Million protest Vietnam War; 20,000 join ‘U’ stadium rally

FROM 
WIRE 
SERVICE 

REPORTERS

PAUL TRAVIS

Arts Editor

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COURTESY OF JIM TOY

“The University of Michigan for 
200 years has disseminated 
knowledge to the University 
community, to Ann Arbor, to 
the state of Michigan, to the 
United States of America and 
to the world. The University 
has encouraged all of us to use 
this knowledge in the service of 
creating and sustaining a moral 
and ethical world environment 
dedicated to human and civil 
rights and to justice for all.”
Jim Toy, Founder of the 
Spectrum Center

FE ATURE D PEOPLE

“The University of Michigan is a 
special institution. As one of the 
world’s best public university, 
its ideals nurture what’s best in 
our collective will as a state. I’m 
thankful for what the University 
has given me, and for the 
inspiration to public service it 
provided me as the hallowed 
ground where President Kennedy 
initiated the idea of the Peace 
Corps, where President Johnson 
launched the Great Society, and 
where President Ford came of 
age. Michigan will continue to 
adapt to the coming 200 years as 
it has over the past 200, and I’m 
thankful to have been a small part 
of celebrating this occasion. “
Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic 
candidate for governor, University 
alum

MAT T VAILLIENCOURT/Daily

1934 — Pearl Kendrick and Grace 

Eldering begin testing of a whooping 

cough vaccine

1941 — Attack on Pearl Harbor 

launches U.S. involvement in WWII

1950 — U-M purchases 300 acres 

of farmland in Northeast Ann Arbor to 

develop what is now North Campus

1949 — Institute 

for Social Research is 

established

1943 — U-M is one of 131 colleges that 

takes part in the V-12 navy program

1952 — Panty raid draws 

national spotlight and 

dozens of imitators across 

the country 

1936 — Burton Memorial 

Tower is built

1935 — Fred Ulrich creates Ulrich’s 

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