Anti-Vietnam War protesters

A crowd of about 4500 anti-Vietnam War protesters gathered in Cuba Street outside the Wellington Town Hall on May Day (1 May) 1971.

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Vietnam War

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: EP/1971/1880-F
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