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50 Years Ago, A Vietnam Protest Led To One Of The Largest Mass Arrests In State History
By the spring of 1971 more than 50,000 Americans had been killed in Vietnam. The conflict tore the country apart and some of the loudest voices against the war came from those who had fought in it.
Ahead of Memorial Day that year, New England members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War planned a march along the Battle Road, from Old North Bridge in Concord to Bunker Hill, with a symbolic stop on Lexington's Battle Green — where the Revolutionary War saw its beginnings. Fifty years later, veterans of the protest, former soldiers and supporters returned to the green to reflect on what happened.
"It was essentially recognizing that what the Minutemen did back in 1774, 1775 1776, was about a warning to a population that could no longer tolerate the oppression of a government and that's what we were reminding everybody of, said Bestor Cram, one of the march organizers.
Cram had enlisted in the Marines. He swept roads for mines during the heavy fighting of the 1968 Tet Offensive.
After he got home, Cram joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He says the idea behind the 1971 march was to retrace Paul Revere's Ride, in reverse.
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Largest mass arrest in state history remembered
Everyone knew they were coming. On Memorial Day 1971, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) marched from Concord and set up camp on the Battle Green.
And Lexington’s selectmen made one thing clear: They weren’t going to stay.
What followed was the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history. At 3 a.m., Lexington Police peacefully rounded up 458 veterans and protesters, took them by bus to the Public Works facility on Bedford Street for processing, and then on to Concord District Court.
Along the way, the town of Lexington changed.
“Up until that point, Lexington had the reputation for being somewhat of a conservative community,” said Lt. Joseph O’Leary, who was a 19-year-old police cadet at that time and took place in the arrests. “After that, the political environment changed, and [Lexington] got the reputation of being much more liberal. I think the complexion of the entire town and the people in town changed.”
That is why a group of Lexington residents decided more than a decade ago that the events leading up to, during, and after that day on the Battle Green in 1971 needed to be recorded. What originally was an effort to memorialize the arrests for the 20th anniversary in 1991 by local historian Eugenia Kaledin t
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