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adhe eG © BOSTON DEMONS TRATION DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES INTERVENTION IN VIETiah - iAPCH 2 1965 On Merch 27, 1965 : page ner age <= ¢ : = ar eT et —— - about 1¢:30 F. hk, tnat cate, a group ci epproximately sixty dndividueis begfen marching from the Cambridge Common with an ultimate destination of the Boston Common. Ths group marched in lines of two through Harvard Square, Cambridge, along Massachusetts Avenue through Central Square, Cambridge, and , across the Harvard Bridge into the Boston area. He stated that by the time the group reached the Harvard Bridge, it had increased in numbers to about one hundred and sixty. He stat that the merch was orderly and that no incidents tock place. . A source on March 27, 1965, advised that at epproxi 1 P. M. that date, a group of approximately sixty-five indivi began marching from the Prudential Center to the Boston Commo This group, source advised, marched along Boylston Street, Bo to Charles Street, Boston, adjacent to the Boston Common, whe they met and joined with the above-mentioned group marching f Cambridge and together marched to the bandstand on the Boston Common for the previously mentioned rally. The source advise that the march from the Prudential Center was orderly and no incidents developed, He also stated that some of the placard carried by the marchers in both groups read: "We Acknowledge U.S. Guilt in S.E. Asia"; “Vietnamese Are Sick and Tired of 0 War"; "We Protest U. 8S. Bombing of North Vietnam"; “Our Government's Policy of Escalation Requires Our Repudiation." . This sovrce further advised that tha rally was atte by approximately three hundred individuals ani wasted from approximately 1:30 FP. M. to 3 P.« M. The sourse stated that t emeactame at +t, 2 - _ . rf speakers at the rally spoke against United Stetes policy in Vietnam and to a Jegree on the current racial situation and were: Howard Zinn, Professor at Boston Unive.:sity, Boston; Mary Ann Weathers. a member of the foston Action Group ~ a local group interested in racial equeziity; Noel Day; Massachusetts Negro candidate for United States Congress in the past elections, who is Director of St. Marks Social Center, Roxbury, Massachusetts, and active in civil rights matters; Xay Boyle, an autnoress;eand one unknown male. This source also advised that in addition to th previously mentioned partacipating groups, there was a token representation from the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) of Ba and the local May 2 ijovement in the march. : 7 +