Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston by Elise Lemire

Author:Elise Lemire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 18. Bestor Cram gets arrested on the Lexington Battle Green. Photographed by Ted Polumbaum. Courtesy of the Newseum Collection.

“The arrest,” Bestor Cram later explained, “was a guarantee that the incident was not going to go unnoticed.”86

Many of those people who had already shown support by coordinating and providing meals or performing as the Vietnamese victims in VVAW-NE’s mock search-and-destroy missions in Concord stayed on the Green in order to get arrested. Other people who had come to the Green to show their support for individual veterans also decided to get arrested, while some, such as Betty Levin, had already decided in consultation with the veterans not to get arrested because they were critically important in carrying out complicated logistics behind the scenes.87

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