SF Anti War March

The first shall be last!!!
Bill Hackwell security organizer for ANSWER, one of the three main sponsoring organization stated that the front of the March did not enter the Civic Center until after 3:00 PM fully 2 hours after the beginning of the program and the time scheduled for their arrival. The cause was simple. Market Street and the Civic Center were already so full of anti-war demonstrators that the march could simply not get through the demonstrators.

Mr. Hackwell stated that “each of the three Peace rallies had doubled in size. Each had posed new problems.” How to get the march through the demonstrators supporting the march had been the biggest problem this time. He estimated that the total crowd numbered approximately 300,000.

SF Police Department lead the March. This photo was presumed to be the beginning of the march. In fact it proceeded the actual front of the March by two hours and four blocks.