In October 1968, after fellow prisoner Richard Bunch was killed by a prison guard at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California, 28 prisoners sat in protest against the war, singing “We Shall Overcome.” Some of the “Presidio 27” were sentenced to up to 16 years hard labor.
How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine
Opposition to the Vietnam war burst into a wide range of activism, including wearing anti-war buttons while in uniform, petitions and demonstrations, guerrilla theater, staging hearings about war crimes, and throwing away the medals they earned.
