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They held a demonstration, the demonstration turned violent. These two stories from different parts of the world come together at a new book titled they marched into sunlight, the authors David Maraniss. Hello David Maraniss. Your epilogue you write that connections fascinate you more than ideology. What is that mean . And how was it reflected in this book . I guess it means i am a journalist and historian. I am not trying to make a specific theological point when i do my reporting. I believe ov...

Page, facebook. Com booktv. October 21, 1967, 100,000 people marched in washington to protest the vietnam war. From the booktv archives. Pulitzer prize winning journalist david maraniss, who in 2002 allowed booktv to accompany him to vietnam and madison, wisconsin for his research in the war abroad and protests at home. This is a rubber Plantation North of saigon in vietnam. Members of the armys regiment known as the black lions were ambushed here. 61 were killed, many were injured. This is the ...

To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit www. Cspan. Org localcontent. We continue with our look at the history of madison. This is American History tv on cspan3. [traffic noises] together we were very small when the Movement Began. Ago, 49 yearss ago, those opposed to the war were in a distinct minority. But over the course of the next six years, we would grow into wherejority to the point the majority of the American People became opposed to the United States being involved in th...

Pro-Palestinian protesters have held firm on their six demands, while Jewish and Israeli students on Monday released their own set of requests.

University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff are planning their own rally for Monday in support of the student pro-Palestine protest.

Campus leaders say they hope to "identify a solution before the beginning of finals on Sunday."

Pro-Palestine protesters, led by Students for Justice in Palestine UW–Madison, have been calling for the University of Wisconsin’s divestment from the state of Israel and denouncing the ongoing war in Gaza. An encampment was put up in the heart of campus Monday, despite the removal of over 30 tents by law enforcement Wednesday. Since the...

The organizers reported that Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin also guaranteed there would be no police action from now until a second meeting takes place.

A UW police spokesperson could not speak to law enforcement plans regarding the newly pitched tents, which protesters began pitching after police retreated Wednesday.

Throughout the years there have been thousands of demonstrations at UW Madison.