Boston Common

... In Boston, about 100,000 people marched on Moratorium Day - it was considered the largest protest the city had ever seen at the time A skywriting plane drew the peace symbol in the sky above the Boston Common as thousands marched The protests brought America s middle class and middle-aged voters out in large numbers for the first time At the time, Moratorium Day was believed to be the largest mass demonstration in US history with more than two million people taking part New York saw a number of rallies across the city At the New York State Theatre, there was a 12 hour chamber music vigil while about 2,000 doctors, nurses and hospital employees chose to march in protest The protests helped put the anti-war movement in the national spotlight and into the mainstream news Supporters of the Moratorium were pictured wearing black armbands...