Let’s remember when antiwar protesters shut down I-5, on this day in 1970 (May 5)
49 years ago today, an area man who wants you to know he voted for Kennedy called antiwar protesters dirty hippies who should get jobs. Probably.
According to HistoryLink’s Walt Crowley:
On May 5, 1970, an estimated 1,000 people surge onto southbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Seattle’s University District. The demonstators are protesting the recent invasion of Cambodia and the deaths of four antiwar protesters on the Kent State campus in Ohio the previous day.
The protest began that morning on the campus of the University of Washington. A large mass of demonstrators then left campus and marched north on University Way NE. They turned west on NE 45th Street and approximately 1,000 entered the freeway. The group halted all traffic as they moved south along the freeway over the Ship Canal Bridge. They were met on the far side of the bridge by a handful of state troopers and exited peacefully at the Roanoke Street off-ramp.
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