[VIETNAM WAR HIROSHIMA DAY PROTEST NEW YORK CITY 1971]
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Year Published: 1971
Format: 16mm
Description: This raw footage apparently dates to August 6, 1971, when a Hiroshima Day anti-Vietnam War protest occurred in New York City. At 2:31 you will see the Manhattan District Office of the Internal Revenue Service. This was the site of an extensive line of picketers, many carrying signs denouncing the use of tax money to support the ongoing war in Vietnam. At 2:50, a participant is interviewed regarding his refusal to pay taxes, and there is a brief discussion of the meaning of Nagasaki Day to the peace movement. At 3:20 another news segment begins featuring the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations discussing a crisis in East Pakistan. The Hiroshima Day marches took place on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945. The first of these took place in 1958 and featured a tribute to a visiting "Hiroshima Maiden" (a woman who survived the Hiroshima bombing) Shigeko Nimoto and a march from Bryant Park to the UN. Starting in 1965, the Hiroshima Day marches—and the peace and antinuclear movements as a whole—began to focus more on the war in Vietnam. The slogan of the 1965 march, at 7th Ave. and 38th St., was "We must end the war in Vietnam before it becomes a world-wide nuclear conflict."
Complete Record: This raw footage apparently dates to August 6, 1971, when a Hiroshima Day anti-Vietnam War protest occurred in New York City. At 2:31 you will see the Manhattan District Office of the Internal Revenue Service. This was the site of an extensive line of picketers, many carrying signs denouncing the use of tax money to support the ongoing war in Vietnam. At 2:50, a participant is interviewed regarding his refusal to pay taxes, and there is a brief discussion of the meaning of Nagasaki Day to the peace movement. At 3:20 another news segment begins featuring the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations discussing a crisis in East Pakistan. The Hiroshima Day marches took place on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945. The first of these took place in 1958 and featured a tribute to a visiting "Hiroshima Maiden" (a woman who survived the Hiroshima bombing) Shigeko Nimoto and a march from Bryant Park to the UN. Starting in 1965, the Hiroshima Day marches—and the peace and antinuclear movements as a whole—began to focus more on the war in Vietnam. The slogan of the 1965 march, at 7th Ave. and 38th St., was "We must end the war in Vietnam before it becomes a world-wide nuclear conflict."
Transcription
[Music] for [Music] I'm Mr fatula why will you not pay taxes I will not pay taxes because I can no longer in good conscience pay for want in death and destruction of human beings and does this have some relationship in your mind to Nagasaki it most certainly does I think Nagasaki day illustrates part of the problem in this country today we find easy solutions for problems rather than trying to sit down and listen and humanely work out Solutions we go to the easy thing and exterminate and eliminate people how are you okay our purpose in coming here today was to uh give emphasis to the very important role that the United Nations is playing in the humanitarian aspects of this crisis and we wanted on behalf of the United States to to assure the Secretary General and his associates that we would do all we could to support that effort uh the planning that is uh going on uh by the Secretary General and others is very reassuring uh the specialized agencies are uh well equipped to deal with these problems that uh we see ahead and certainly the United States is going to contribute whatever we can to that effort uh it was emphasized in meeting that this is a responsibility of the International Community and uh the United Nations of course is the proper for uh for emphasis uh in that regard and uh we would hope that uh All Nations will respond to the great humanitarian need that that is present and that may even accelerate in the months ahead well as we've said before uh we're not going to get involved now in any publicity or public statements about uh our efforts uh beyond the fact that we are making every possible effort to work out uh with those concerned and interim settlement we did have a brief discussion about that this morning but our principal emphasis was on the situation in East Pakistan
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