This photograph shows a demonstrator offering a flower to a First Army military policeman during a rally to protest the Vietnam War in 1967. Another demonstrator holds a sign reading: Free YAWF Leaders Jailed for Aiding Anti-War G.I.’s – Youth Against War & Fascism.
On October 21, 1967, an estimated crowd of 70,000–100,000 demonstrators gathered by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to protest the Vietnam War and march on the Pentagon in the first major national protest against the war. In addition to the signs, chants, and other hallmarks of an anti-war demonstration, activists distributed daisies, and additionally planned to levitate the Pentagon off its foundation in an act of political theater. By the end of the protest, over 600 protesters had been jailed, and dozens hospitalized.
