WOMEN FOR PEACE IN BATTLE AT WHITE HOUSE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800080011-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
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1inent~r Peace in Batty r
white House
by Jack White
washinaton Post Staff Writer
Four persons were arrest-
ed as an anti-draft demon-
stration led by W-o rn e n
Strike for Peace erupted
into a wild melee in front of
the White House yesterday.
'I'he outbreak occurred
when some of the protesters
-mostly middle-aged
women - attempted to join
100 fellow pickets already in
front of the White House.
Park Police regulations pro-
hibit demonstration by more
than 100 there.
As about 80 of the women
surged out of Lafayette
Park headed toward the
last: Gate of the White
Clouse, they were met by a
wall of Park Police. In the
ruckus, several women were
knocked to the ground,
shuck by swinging police
bilW sticks and tackled after
breaking, through the line.
After trying unsuccess-.
fully to pass the police lines,
the women staged a noisy
?5-minute sit-in in the street,
ight: in the middle of the
t'ennsylvania Avenue-lvladi-
:o(r glace intersection. They
tinnted "Hell, no! We won't
o" and "We shall not be
moved" into the faces of the
policemen who c r o w d e d
around them.
Park Police, who have
charge of both Lafayette
Park and the sidewalk in
front of the White House,
gave the women "two min-
utes to move or you will be
charged with unlawful as-
sembly."
A compromise was worked
out, however, allowing the
women to return to the
1'.^.rk,
Two men and two women
-ere arrested and charged
vith disorderly conduct.
THE 1VIELE1, feilowed a
ally at the 1511ipse during
Peace pled.ed itself to re-
sist, the di aft and called
upon :-oung men to refuse
to serve in S iet-iam.
Daginar vilson, founder
of the worren's strike,. Who
returned from two weeks in
Hanoi on Tiesday, told
about 300 at tic rally .'the
moral( of the Nc th Viet,'
names' is a:)sotute:.y superb
and I can nderstand why.
You sir at t table in a dtlg-
out and heir ino e Ameri-
can planes inc yo.: want to
get up and :.hoot them down
yourself."
She also quoted a cap-
tured Amer:cari picot as say-
ing " gro hone and tell the
American reorple the truth.
Print the Geneva Accords in
every newspaper s, that the
American reople will know
we have no business being
in Vier.nam. '
Gar' Racer. who said he
was a former Careen Beret,
told the rill, that "hun-
dreds of drift :sisters" will
return thei - draft cards to
authorities on )ct.. 16.
VI .,l,i, y, LI I1'SE, the
protesters na 'chid two-
])v-two o S''Ier ti.ve Sec.: 'e
Headquarters, 17th and F
sts., n'v.
Chanting We'll back the
boys who v. ill not go," they
carried to the door of the
building a black "coffin"
marked "N :t my ions-not
your :ions- no. the it sons-
support those wha say no'
It was after m_me group had
marched to: Lj:'ayette Park
that the violence began. One
hundred of the women were
allowed to carry their picket
White House where they
marched in a tight circle.
The 400 or so left n the
Park began to mill around
between green picker, bar-
riers which one dubbed
"Johnson's Wall." Several
persons attempted to cross
the street.
All four arrests were
made as the group at-
tempted to cross Pennsylva-
nia Avenue. Rader, 23, was
arrested when he lay down
in front of a paddy wagon.
As he was wrestled awav by
police, Francis R. flocks,
23, and several women
came to his aid. :Police
grabbed Rocks and berth hr
and Rader were taken to the
Third Precinct.
The two women who were
arrested were Evelyn -% lacy.
50, of Philadelphia, and
Joyce 1). Williamson, 1, of
3416 17th st. nw- Miss V, if-
Ii rpson was charged 'e th
failure to move on.
All four were iat,'r
leased on $10 collater?ar on
disorderly conduct chart
After the protestor, h ro
returned to F;hfavettp Pa .k-
Park Police made ar, offer
to allow all 500 women to
picket the White House in
shifts of 100. Previously,
the picketing was restricted
to the first 100 women who
crossed the street.
Mrs. Wilson rejected the
offer saying "If we cross 100
at a time, we're accepting
the edict we reject."
SOL ROSEN, an Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union
lawyer, told newsmen that
he would bring criminal
charges against "eve-3 po-
liceman involved." Ile said
the regulation limiting dem-
onstrations to 100 was "fla-
grantly unconstitutional and
t.;iat he would challenge
r in the courts.
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