 | The Cavalier daily Monday, April 26, 1971 |  |
Young People
Most of the marchers were young
people, although he crowd included a
number of middle-aged and older people.
Veterans and a group from the St. Louis
Teamsters Union also accompanied the
demonstrators.
Arriving at the Capitol, the crowd heard a
series of speeches calling for an end to the war,
interspersed with entertainment by Peter, Paul
and Mary, Pete Seeger, and John Denver.
Coretta Scott King, widow of the late
Martin Luther King Jr., asked for complete
withdrawal of U.S. forces by August 28, eight
years after Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech
at another demonstration in Washington.
Mrs. King stated that the large attendance at
the rally disproved what she called the "cynical
administration assumption" that a sealing down
of the war would cause resistance to the war to
decrease.
| The Cavalier daily Monday, April 26, 1971 | |