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.
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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
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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
Bookstore on South University