Illustrations

1. In the 1950s all public schools routinely had civil defense drills

2. Planning Stay Out for Freedom, June 1963

3. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

4. I had desperately wanted to be one of these Freedom Summer Volunteers, here completing their training

5. The SDS Vietnam protest in Washington, April 15, 1965

6. Our first local march against the war, October 1965

7. Search and destroy mission, Battle of Ia Drang

8. McNamara and I on the hood of a car

9. In 1966 images like this brought home the reality of the war

10. Detroit, July 25, 1967

11. Troops moving into Detroit, July 1967

12. Draft card being burned inside the Arlington Street Church, October 16, 1967

13. Outside the Pentagon, October 21, 1967

14. Napalm became a searing image of the war

15. Rudi Dutschke, 1968

16. April 4, 1968—after Rudi Dutschke was shot, “More than 20.000 policemen had trouble with student-demonstrators.”

17. Students marching in Paris, May 1968

18. My Harvard commencement. Protesting, Amy is in the center

19. In 1968 we organized thousands to protest on Election Day

20. Our signs said “Don’t Vote”

21. Inside occupied University Hall

22. Police beating a student in Harvard Yard, early morning, April 10, 1969

23. Thousands of members of the Harvard community rally in the stadium

24. I (second from right) was among those ratifying strike demands in Harvard Stadium

25. Harvard strike poster

26. Image that haunted us. The South Vietnamese National Police chief executes a suspected Vietcong officer, February 1, 1968

27. The iconic picture of a young girl and others fleeing a napalm attack, 1972

28. Hard Hats rally in New York to support the war, just before attacking antiwar high school and college students

29. Injured paratroopers of the 101st Airborne make their way down “Hamburger Hill”

30. Marching on MIT’s iLab

31. By 1970 we usually marched with National Liberation Front flags

32. New York Daily News front page, August 26, 1969. Headline: “SIR, MY MEN REFUSE TO GO!”

33. October 15, 1969, the moratorium on the Common

34. Ten thousand marched the day after the Chicago verdict was announced

35. Photographer’s caption was “Police attack demonstrators,” Northeastern, 1970

36. Injured police at Northeastern, 1970

37. Harvard Square as night fell

38. Caption by photographer: “Massachusetts State Troopers in riot gear assault a protester at an anti–Vietnam War demonstration in Harvard Square”

39. Full-blown riot in Cambridge

40. Younger kids hanging at Ronan Park

41. Gathering signatures to demand the judge Jerome Troy be removed

42. The People First (TPF) protesting Judge Troy

43. Pushing a US helicopter into the sea after the fall of Saigon

44. Vietnam Veterans Against the War marching in East Boston, 1971

45. VVAW. From left to right: Al Hubbard, John Kerry, Bestor Cram, Art Johnson

46. Police dragging protester at federal building sit-in, May 11, 1972

47. Frustrated police pulling those sitting in by their hair, May 11, 1972

48. Me in 1972

49. CAP-Energy protest

50. Fair Share leaders at the State House filing petitions for the referendum

51. As executive director of Mass Fair Share

52. Mass Fair Share picketing the phone company

53. Typical Fair Share member