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1971 veterans march on Washington D.C...
Item # 724927
April 29, 1971
THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, April 29, 1971
* Vietnam Veterans Against the War
* "Operation Dewey Canyon III"
* March on Washington D.C. w/ photos
* Alice Cooper rock singer and songwriter
* "Love It to Death" album tour - I'm Eighteen
* Manhattan concert advertisement
The front page has a seven photo pictorial with small heading: "The Veterans Go To Washington" (see images) with reporting beginning on page 9 with heading: "The vets & Mayday" with lead-in: "A changing peace movement" and 3 more related photos. Coverage continues on other inside pages.
background: Operation Dewey Canyon III stands as a watershed moment in American protest history because it subverted the traditional imagery of the anti-war movement, replacing student radicals with decorated soldiers in olive-drab fatigues. Over five days in April 1971, approximately 1,000 members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) conducted a "limited incursion into the country of Congress," camping on the National Mall in defiance of a Supreme Court injunction and performing "guerrilla theater" to simulate combat conditions for the public. The demonstration’s emotional climax occurred at the West Steps of the Capitol, where veterans—some in wheelchairs and many weeping—hurled their Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars, and campaign ribbons over a wire fence, symbolically returning the honors they felt were tainted by an unjust conflict. This act of "returning" their medals, coupled with John Kerry’s searing testimony before the Senate, effectively stripped the Nixon administration of its "patriotism" defense and forced a weary American public to confront the moral trauma of the men who had executed the war.
Page 55 has a full page ad for a Alice Cooper concert in Manhattan.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
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Complete in 104 pages, tabloid-size, small red library stamp at the top of the front page, a crease across the center, very minor margin wear, nice condition.
Provenance note: This issue comes from The Village Voice's own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive.
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Category: The 20th Century
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