Hey, Hey, LBJ; How many kids did you kill today?: 1967 ca.
The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) produced this small (approximately 3” x 4.5”) flyer for U.S. troops serving in Vietnam circa 1967 (The Manilla conference referred to was in Sept. 1966).
The flyer tells the truth about the chant that greeted President Lyndon Johnson and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey whenever they visited a U.S. city.
In Washington, D.C. about two-dozen members mobilized by SDS and other groups based at 3 Thomas Circle gathered on a Sunday morning early in 1968.
As the Presidential limousine and accompanying secret service cars pulled up to the National City Christian Church located across the Circle, the demonstrators began chanting, “Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” while moving toward the church.
The secret service quickly hustled President Lyndon Johnson and his wife inside the church and protest ended shortly afterward.
The protest followed the December 1967 confrontation at Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles where upwards of 10,000 protesters voicing the same chant clashed violently with police as Johnson entered the hotel. The publicity resulting from the public confrontation with Johnson spurred smaller demonstrations in other cities, including the one in Washington, D.C.
Those who woke up early and gathered at the SDS offices in Washington that morning probably wondered what the point of it all was when the small protest was over within two minutes.
But George Reedy, Johnson’s press secretary at the time, recalled in a 1997 interview with the Los Angeles Times, "It bothered the hell out of him to see the students chanting, 'Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?'"
For a PDF of this 2-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/1967-ca.pdf
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskcMVRWh
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
Hey, Hey, LBJ; How many kids did you kill today?: 1967 ca.
The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) produced this small (approximately 3” x 4.5”) flyer for U.S. troops serving in Vietnam circa 1967 (The Manilla conference referred to was in Sept. 1966).
The flyer tells the truth about the chant that greeted President Lyndon Johnson and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey whenever they visited a U.S. city.
In Washington, D.C. about two-dozen members mobilized by SDS and other groups based at 3 Thomas Circle gathered on a Sunday morning early in 1968.
As the Presidential limousine and accompanying secret service cars pulled up to the National City Christian Church located across the Circle, the demonstrators began chanting, “Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” while moving toward the church.
The secret service quickly hustled President Lyndon Johnson and his wife inside the church and protest ended shortly afterward.
The protest followed the December 1967 confrontation at Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles where upwards of 10,000 protesters voicing the same chant clashed violently with police as Johnson entered the hotel. The publicity resulting from the public confrontation with Johnson spurred smaller demonstrations in other cities, including the one in Washington, D.C.
Those who woke up early and gathered at the SDS offices in Washington that morning probably wondered what the point of it all was when the small protest was over within two minutes.
But George Reedy, Johnson’s press secretary at the time, recalled in a 1997 interview with the Los Angeles Times, "It bothered the hell out of him to see the students chanting, 'Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?'"
For a PDF of this 2-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/1967-ca.pdf
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskcMVRWh
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson