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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1969
Page
1
Hank Greenspun reflects on Senator Hugh Scott's plea about war protesters. He argues loyalties lie with humanity and urges immediate cessation of killing as public dissent grows. A Nevada father disrupts a Vietnam Moratorium reading, crying as his son’s name is read.
A candlelight march on the White House drew an estimated 22 000 to 50 000 protesters as Mrs Martin Luther King Jr denounced the war as an enemy of poor and black people. She urged President Nixon to bring the troops home now and warned of missed opportunities if action was delayed.
More than 300 people gathered at the Federal building in Las Vegas as former Governor Grant Sawyer and Nevada dignitaries read the names of American war dead in Vietnam. Sawyer, Hank Greenspun, and Assemblyman Norman Ty Hilbrecht spoke, praising the peace protest part of national Vietnam Moratorium Day at UNLV with two hours of speeches and calls for moral courage to end the war.
Former Nevada governor Grant Sawyer denounces the Vietnam war and Paris peace talks, calling the effort a massive mistake. He urges a termination date and troop withdrawal as casualties rise, noting many listed Nevada deaths are familiar to him.
About 400 students at the University of Nevada Las Vegas participated in a peaceful antiwar moratorium in the campus area. Professors and community members spoke as students wore black armbands to voice broader personal viewpoints.
Mostly cloudy with a chance of a few showers and gentle winds from 15 to 28 mph. Today's high near 70 and low around 50, yesterday's high 69 and low 96. Noontime humidity at 2 percent. Sunrise at 6 47 and sunset at 6 05.
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