Protesters of the Vietnam War in New York 1967

Federal Troops and Protests in 1971

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 30, 2020

Lawrence Roberts, investigative journalist and the author of Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America’s Biggest Mass Arrest (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), talks about the anti-war protests of 1971 when President Nixon called in federal troops in D.C.

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