Rev. Carl McIntire leads 3rd ‘March for Victory’

Rev. Carl McIntire leads 3rd ‘March for Victory’ – 1971

Fundamentalist Christian preacher Carl McIntire led 5,000 Bible-carrying and flag-waving marchers down Pennsylvania Ave from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument grounds May 8, 1971.

The lightly attended demonstration followed three weeks of anti-Vietnam War protests that included hundreds of Vietnam veterans who threw their medals toward the U.S. Capitol; more than half million participants during an April 24 march; and 12,500 arrests during the Mayday civil disobedience that attempted to shut down the government in protest of the war.

The Daily News estimated 8,500 participants. U.S. Park Police estimated 14,000 attended the rally. A Washington Post counter along Pennsylvania Avenue logged 4,800 participants in the march. McIntire had previously led 40,000 in April 1970 and 20,000 in October 1970 in marches for victory in Vietnam.

McIntire hoped to “repudiate” the antiwar marches by drawing more participants, but fell miserably short.

One of the march demands was to free U.S. Army Lt. William Calley who was convicted of murdering hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in 1968. Another demand was a return of prayer to public schools.

Several hundred anti-Vietnam War protesters briefly clashed with the pro-war marchers, leading to two arrests of antiwar counter-demonstrators.

McIntire would lead a total of six pro-war marches in Washington, D.C.—each smaller than the previous-- the last in April 1973 drawing about 2,000 participants.

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The image is the front cover of the May 8, 1971 Washington Daily News.

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