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The Students for a democratic society, later to become one of the most influential anti-vietnam organizations, is founded in early 1960 by Tom Hayden and Al Haber.
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(Vietnam Footage)The U.S. formally entered the Vietnam War in 1963 after the French retreat, and had 16,000 troops stationed in South Vietnam by the end of the Year
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(See the Assassination)John F. Kennedy is shot just a few weeks after having announced his plans to withdraw troops from South Vietnam. These plans are never acted upon.
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Though having already acted as president in wake of Kennedy's death, LBJ won the reelection in 1964 and subsequently began expanding US forces in Vietnam
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Word Spreads of the United States bombing parts of Northern Vietnam, and the protest movement soon experiences a large growth in support as a result.
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The SDS used its new growth in membership to organize a march on washington in protest of the bombings, and attracts an attendance of between 15,000 and 25,000.
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(Click Here to Listen to his Speech) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. openly opposed Americas presence and actions in Vietnam on a moral level.
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Thousands of people from across the country wrote letters to secretary of defense Robert McNamara stating their moral disapproval of the actions in Vietnam.
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The 'March on the Pentagon' in October 1967 drew over 50,000 protestors. The 2 day march on the Pentagon building attracted national media coverage. Here, leaders of the movement called for young men to burn their draft Cards
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A second march on Washington D,C. drew an attendance of about 500,000, one of the largest protest marches ever organized.
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(Footage)A public proteset demonstration at Kent State University after Nixon Announced U.S. entry into Cambodia ended in violence and the killing of 4 students
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Nixon SpeechIn response to an overwhelming majority of Americans opposing the War, President Nixon announced that the U.S. was effectively withdrawing from Vietnam.
