1960's Hippie Protest Pin VIETNAM MORATORIUM Peace Sign
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Check my auctions for VIETNAM War Era CAUSE & HIPPIE PROTEST Pins!Click the "M E" icon to see my auctions. Return with us now to the Golden Days of Yesteryear.... "VIETNAM MORATORIUM" 1960's VIETNAM Peace Hippie PROTEST BUTTON! Near EXCELLENT CONDITION! 1 1 1/2" Celluloid. Excellent Surface & Color. Labor Union Seal. Manufacturer's ID on curl for: None. Psychedelic Day-Glo Orange Black Light ready for the next Love-In. SEE SCAN. No reserve. This is genuine- not a reproduction. VIETNAM WAR FLASHBACK: AUGUST 28, 1968 CHICAGO: "THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING." August 28, 1968 - Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 10,000 anti-war protesters including the Yippies with Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman, supporters of the "Anybody But Johnson Movement" peace candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy, the slain RFK Bobby Kennedy and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King gather on downtown streets and are then confronted by 26,000 Chicago police and national guardsmen. The brutal crackdown is covered live on network TV. 800 demonstrators are injured. Inside the Convention Delegates nominate LBJ's Vice- President Hubert Humphrey after the Stop Humphrey movement fails to nominate McCarthy or RFK. On the Streets a police riot rages with images shown around worldwide. "The Whole World is Watching" the protestors chanted from People's Park. Then Yippies
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