The Sixth Side of the Pentagon

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"If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side."— Zen proverb

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been killed in Bolivia only two weeks previously, and, for many, it was the transition from simply marching against the war, to taking direct action to try to stop the 'American war machine.'

Norman Mailer wrote about the events in Armies of the Night. French filmmaker Chris Marker, leading a team of filmmakers, was also there, and made THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON.

From young men burning their draft cards, to the Yippies chanting "Out, demons, out!" while trying to levitate the Pentagon, to thousands of protestors rushing the steps of the Pentagon itself and some actually getting into the building, THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON, by contemporaneously putting us in the midst of the action yet combining the experience with a wry and reflective commentary, is a remarkable time capsule and reminder of events from forty years ago, 1967-the turning point of opposition to a long and unpopular war.

"Two of Chris Marker's most boldly political films… [THE EMBASSY] is an emotionally powerful film, especially in its closing moments, speaking more about the temper of the times than any history of the era has yet expressed… [THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON] is equally powerful documentary footage… breathtaking and emboldening."-Bob Ham, DVD Corner

"Marker isn't there simply to record reality, he is there to write, to rewrite reality during the filming.… The director becomes a witness to this historic event, recording the memory of a moment when social criticism becomes political action."—Sofia Norlin, Association des Cinémas de Recherché d'Ile-de-France

"Eloquent… impressive… Chris Marker is among that rare breed of men in whom the currents of political engagement and searching human honesty reinforce and enrich rather than antagonize each other."—Larry Loewinger, Film Quarterly

"There probably isn't a film that covers the March on the Pentagon better than THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON… a valued addition… recommended."—Christopher Lewis, Educational Media Reviews Online

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Main credits

Marker, Chris (film director)
Marker, Chris (film producer)
Reichenbach, François (film director)
Reichenbach, François (film producer)

Other credits

[Image, Chris Marker [and 3 others]; montage, Carlos De Los Llanos].

MARC Record See Worldcat record

Keywords

March on the Pentagon; Chris Marker; protest; Vietnam War; Pentagon; 1967; Yippies; Hippies; protestors; protesters; documentary; film; video; DVD; "The Sixth Side of the Pentagon"; Icarus Films; "The Sixth Side of the Pentagon"; Icarus Films,doc; history; shod; sociss

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The six side of the Pentagon.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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(SINGING) [INAUDIBLE]

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Pentagon Washington DC, nerve
center of the United States

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military establishment.

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The biggest administration
building in the world.

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Switchboard or octopus.

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City within the city-state
within the state.

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Whichever, it stands
for the American War,

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and at this stage, for
the war in Vietnam.

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It is the place where the
world\'s greatest concentration

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of military men per square mile
[? cemetery ?] is accepted.

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In selecting the Pentagon
as their objective,

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the demonstrators
of October 21st

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have been breaking with the
tradition of marching marches.

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Washington is perhaps
their first truly political

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demonstration.

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It is no more a question of
marching, but rather of facing.

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The organizers actually intend
to go even further and paralyze

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for a moment the war machine.

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So the word is direct action.

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There were more than 100,000
assembled in Washington.

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But what is more important,
35,000 among them--

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that is the official figure--

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will be participating
in direct action.

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We\'re presenting
all sorts of shades

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of course, all the way from
Gandhi to Fidel Castro.

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Yet at the origin of this
siege, to the world\'s biggest

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military operation, there is one
of the world\'s tiniest office

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operation, mobilization
headquarters in New York City.

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--see other people that
want to get tickets for me

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to come back.

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Unless you want to come
down here to buy a ticket?

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And it\'s supposed
to come back Sunday?

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Yeah.

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OK.

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But you must be back tomorrow
afternoon or Saturday.

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How many people are
going down to Washington?

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Anyone know?

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The FBI huh?

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Hmmm?

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[INAUDIBLE] FBI.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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The FBI, CIA.

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In Washington, on
October 20, young Nazis

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are distributing gas
the Viet Cong leaflets.

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Hey, that\'s for the
American Nazi party.

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I have got one of my own.

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They are not very
numerous in the states,

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those underdeveloped morons,
but basically, their arguments

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are the same as the generals.

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The ritual they are
trying to disrupt

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is taking place
even more frequently

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across the country with
priests, writers, professors

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joining in order to
speak out for draftees

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who refuse to down
uniforms and will

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return piles of draft cards
to the Department of Justice.

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The time of the individual
protest has passed.

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[INAUDIBLE] Chicago [INAUDIBLE]
like a 45 cars [INAUDIBLE]..

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Police is cordoning
off the demonstration

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to safeguard everybody\'s right
to express any shade of opinion

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democratically.

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[INAUDIBLE] I have
a signed letter here

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from [INAUDIBLE] in
Boulder and Denver

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saying that we have
disposed of our cars.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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That day in Washington on
the eve of the peace march,

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nearly 1,000 draft cards
will be solemnly deposited

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by the justice ministry.

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Can we ask at this time that
any individual that will like

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to turn in his card today--

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The protest was started out--

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Besides things are
moving everywhere,

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even at the university as
quiet hitherto has broken.

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Army draft officials arrived
there to sell the war.

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One group began
demonstrating against them.

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The government
sent in the police.

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And immediately, even the
politically unconcerned,

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took sides in order to get
academic freedom respected.

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And that is how they began to
discover the reasons of those

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concerned before they were.

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Courtesy of the authorities,
[INAUDIBLE] ineptness.

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And now [INAUDIBLE],,
a day and a half

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ago, this campus was
apathetic like no school

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in the whole city.

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Today it is activist.

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The administration
has tried to suppress

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a small group of protesters.

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Instead they have created a
whole campus of protesters.

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[CROWD JEERS]

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It is from universities
such as this one

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that the demonstrators took
off for Washington, some

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having already
made their choice,

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the others siding with them,
but all conscious politically.

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There was Indian
summer in Washington,

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what elsewhere is called fall.

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The first dripping moment
and an expected one,

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John Wilson calling
for a minute of silence

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in memory of Che Guevara.

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che Guevara.

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Che is not only the hero of the
Negro and the Puerto Ricans.

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His portrait and
his name come up all

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through the demonstration.

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He is the common denominator for
the battle against the Vietnam

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War, for the revolt
of the Negroes,

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for solidarity with
the third world,

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for the will to
transform society.

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The Reverend William
Sloane Coffin,

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Chaplain of Yale University,
says a prayer for peace.

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Other speakers will be Dave
Dellinger, Malcolm X sister,

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John Wilson of the
[? snake, ?] and Dr.

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Benjamin [? Spock. ?] The
speakers alternate with

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the show.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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A dramatic pacifist pantomime,
the moral of which is as

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follows.

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If you give the military all
the powers to defend you,

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who will defend you
against the military?

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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The trio Peter, Paul, and Mary.

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All this begins like
a huge country fair.

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[FAINT MUSIC PLAYING IN THE
BACKGROUND]

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Transistor sound the
news from World War III,

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Vietnam, Bolivia, Israel.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Another pacifist
[INAUDIBLE] drama.

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[SOUND OF PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD]

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Suddenly a few young
Nazis charged the rostrum.

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[CROWD PROTESTS]

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John Wilson, the black
leader concludes,

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you\'re beginning
to understand what

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it is like to have white
coppers in front of you.

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We people, we\'ve known
them since we were born.

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Well then, welcome to the club.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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And the march on
the Pentagon is on.

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(SINGING) [INAUDIBLE]
to my hip [INAUDIBLE]

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never mind how
hard it\'s raining.

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Look with all the
ground we\'re gaining.

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Just don\'t take one
step outside of town.

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Then Ben Johnson
told the nation,

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have no fear of escalation.

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I am trying everyone
[? today. ?] [INAUDIBLE]

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a 1,000 more to help save
Vietnam from [INAUDIBLE]..

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Near the confines
of the Pentagon,

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the procession hits
upon a clergyman,

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who, from the bucket
of an hydraulic crane,

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preaches against
godless communism.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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[HELICOPTER BUZZ]

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All of a sudden rises
the choir of the hippies.

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And there comes a peak
of 100% guaranteed

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homemade schizophrenia--

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the father preaching,
the speakers teaching,

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the hippies preaching.

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Indeed the hippies have
begun to chase the demons

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from the Pentagon.

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They had asked permission
from the authorities

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to have the Pentagon
levitated up to 300 yards

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above the ground.

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They received permission
for only 10 yards.

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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Four o\'clock, the
most determined groups

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wish to check out a defense
setup of the security

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forces next to the building.

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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Viet Cong flags
and crash helmets

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like the very cask [INAUDIBLE]

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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Listen.

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It\'s been peaceful so far.

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Let\'s keep it that way.

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It\'s been peaceful so far.

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Let\'s keep it that way.

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It\'s to our credit
that\'s peaceful.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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When contact is first made,
the leaders recall orders.

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Keep non-violent.

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Don\'t look for incidents.

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But among their troops many
consider that a demonstration

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won\'t make sense, unless
they deliberately cross

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government imposed limits.

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace--

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[INAUDIBLE] one, two,
three, four, five, six,

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seven [INAUDIBLE].

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One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven [INAUDIBLE]..

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One, two, three,
four [INAUDIBLE]

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Following the first couples,
the second wave comes up,

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the veterans.

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They have come to throw
out handfuls of leaflets

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to the faces of the soldiers.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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We won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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Hell no, we won\'t go.

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[INTERPOSING VOICES]

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(SINGING) Hell no, we won\'t go.

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And it\'s a hell no, we won\'t go.

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And it\'s a hell no, we won\'t go.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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All the wings unfold.

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The country fair is over.

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[FAINT CROWD CHANTS]

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace now.

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Peace.

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The crowd begins to press the
security forces from all sides.

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The soldiers are nervous.

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Behind each platoon, one can
see teargas sprayers bearers.

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Megaphones exhort
the demonstrators.

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The moment has come
for direct action.

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[INAUDIBLE] We\'re not going
to change the Pentagon

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with millions of [INAUDIBLE]

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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[INAUDIBLE] One thing is clear.

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This may not be the
time and the place,

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but [INAUDIBLE] that
next time [INAUDIBLE]

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there\'s a march moving
in the other way.

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But next time, we\'re going
to be a little more prepared,

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and use your imagine a
little more in what we do.

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And it\'s the break breakthrough.

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[INAUDIBLE] moment of hesitation
among the security forces,

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a group of demonstrators realize
that there is practically

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no one left before them.

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That group thrust us
forward towards one

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of the gates of the Pentagon.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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Some 10 have made it
to inside the hole.

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They are thrown out
by helmeted marshals.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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It is one of these
unarmed kids who

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shouts at a helmet cover,
why are you scared men?

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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[INAUDIBLE] He\'s a murderer.

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Put your head down.

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Counterattack from the soldiers.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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And from there on everybody
keeps his position.

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It is then that Mark
[INAUDIBLE] took

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pictures of that
weird scene, a woman

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moving to offer a
flower to the soldiers,

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then throwing it at their feet,
challenging them, none of you

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will dare pick up that flower.

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Another group stages the
ascension of the Pentagon

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terrorists by means of ropes as
the original crusaders used to.

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It won\'t go any further, but
they will keep the terrorists

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all night.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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A final challenge.

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Several tens of youngsters
burn their draft cards.

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And night falls on the last
crowd of demonstrators.

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Their leaders have
been arrested.

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And those kids
left to themselves

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will generate among themselves
something like a common purpose

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as they keep the ground, as
they get initiatives going,

00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:24.960 align:middle line:84%
as they lecture the soldiers
on the war in Vietnam.

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At sunrise the handful of those
having lived through that night

00:23:28.650 --> 00:23:31.080 align:middle line:84%
have gained the
entirely novel feeling

00:23:31.080 --> 00:23:33.180 align:middle line:90%
of having crossed the threshold.

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From political
gestures, they have

00:23:35.100 --> 00:23:36.680 align:middle line:90%
moved on to political action.

00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:55.910 align:middle line:90%

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Others have spent
a night in prison,

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comfortable prisons complete
with TV sets and sandwiches,

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which would come as a
surprise to veterans

00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:05.780 align:middle line:84%
of [INAUDIBLE]
demonstrations and nights

00:24:05.780 --> 00:24:07.820 align:middle line:90%
spent at police stations there.

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But in this case to, a
ritual has been abolished.

00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:13.910 align:middle line:84%
Side by side with
imprisoned celebrities,

00:24:13.910 --> 00:24:16.020 align:middle line:84%
Norman Mailer,
[? Shelly ?] Clark,

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the kids have tasted
an insecurity,

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responsibility for the
first time in their lives.

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Once back at the campus,
the Washington march

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will turn out to have
been an hour of mutation.

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From then on it will
no more be so much

00:24:30.230 --> 00:24:32.990 align:middle line:84%
a question of demonstrating
than of endeavoring

00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:35.060 align:middle line:90%
to change the order of things.

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Action proposed in
the universities

00:24:37.030 --> 00:24:39.230 align:middle line:84%
is showing the
influence already--

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bearing access to the campus
to Army draft officials,

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effective help to
deserters, disruption

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of the work of the draft boards.

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In brief, resistance
instead of protest.

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What the effect of all these
will be, first on the war,

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then on American society,
may seem a derisive question

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to ask today.

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But the least that one
May say about that segment

00:25:04.610 --> 00:25:07.710 align:middle line:84%
of the university generation
which expressed itself

00:25:07.710 --> 00:25:11.280 align:middle line:84%
at Washington is what we
were told spontaneously

00:25:11.280 --> 00:25:13.880 align:middle line:84%
by a 15-year-old
girl demonstrator

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after that night spent on
the steps of the Pentagon.

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I have changed.

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(SINGING) No.

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It takes a real man to say no.

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