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ove Dee O710 we eee aw 44 iS te cy a . "New York Times, May 3, 1971, MO rs : tion of the Ellipse, where the demonstrators engaged in 8roup discus. 810n8, In the evening PCPJ sponsored an all-night rock concert at the - convince government workers in the capital of the justness of the . demonstrators’ cause, The radicals had hoped to meet the government - employees in their offices and discuss PCPJ demands for an end to dure, Instead, the protestors were only allowed to meet with smal] groups of Federal employees, a, : 0 By the end of the week-long “people's lobbying,” the militants had not been very successful in convincing Bovernment workers that they Should absent themselves from their jobs. Their irritation at this lack of success soon resulted in a new tactic, and the demonstrators at. tempted to block the entrance to government buildings so that em: Ployees could not enter their offices, Capitol police responded to these - actions by arresting 300 PCPJ members who blocked the entrance to the Justice Department building on April 30. - ; As the “People’s Lobby” ended, Washington Sirded itself for the second of May, when the extremists had Promised “to close down the government.” These threats had been made by a radical faction of PCPJ known as the Mayday Tribe, The militant Tribe members had chosen the American Indian. as their symbol and were prepared to execute a major maneuver in Washington designed to halt traffic, The action ig described in their manual, which read: Thousands of us with bamboo flutes, nerve center.13 In answer to the threat posed by the radicals, sovernment officials began moving military units into the city. By the afternoon of May1, -. 1971, more than 50,000 protestors had gathered in Washington,.The. ue _ Browing size of the crowd made Federal officials apprehensive about the possibility of violence, Their fears led them to take the offensive, ; . demonstrators to vacate their. encampment on the Potomac River, ~ abandoned their ington’s universi- The following - and attempted to certain traffic cir: began arresting ¢' demonstrators hz detained in the \\ Robert F. Kenne were freed when jail under “cruel . ended on May 6 bassy drew only 2 On June 13, 15 of classified docu Vietnam. The par _ ie] Ellsberg, a fo: These articles, do. as the Pentagon |: The United Sta: confidential paper forced to admit de fertile ground for The real value . letter of transmit. H. Gelb, director : ‘course, we all hax: through clearly < Study did not ine). ber of State Dep: President Nixo: stance of the docu activities describe. during the Kenne. vouch for their aur’ cation of the offici. . '*The Pentagon Pay. making on Vietnam (B. * In July 1975, Nixon , ing his civil suit to +. Question regarding his bers of the White Hou. Papers matter, because “Administration.” Vew }