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At 6:00 AM, approximately 200 hippie- -type individuals were milling around the Sheep Meadow. . By 11:00 AM, the crowd had enlarged to approximately 1,000 individuals. At that time a band started playing music at the Southwest corner of the Sheep Meadow. Stands were also set up at which YIP posters were passed out advertising a "Festival of Life", in Chicago, August 25 to 30, 1968, with free music, lights, theater and magic. In addition, in one section of the Sheep Meadow a small area was also set up to accept donations of canned food goods for the forthcoming Poor People's March to Washington, D.C. At 1:00 PM, the crowd had enlarged to approximately 5,000 individuals and at 2:00 PM, the crowd had enlarged to a peak of approximately 9,000 hippie-type individuals and Easter Sunday strollers. . A number of individuals wearing "Yippie" T-shirts wandered through the crowd with buckets attempting to obtain contributions for YIP. During the day numerous small groups entertained with various hippie-type music. At 3:00. PM, a small single engineairplane circled over the Sheep Meadow three times and dropped bunches of flowers. By 6:00, PM, the crowd had dwindled to. approximately 1,000 individuals’ who were gathered around the platform at the Southwest corner of the Sheep Meadow listening to hippie-type music. By 7:45 PM, the majority of the crowd had dispersed. Fe ec cee