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rs SILISOT COMING EATON: LIVE
1:05 NEW YORK DEAOISThATION Antiwar protestors demonstrating against Presideni battled polic ss Nixon last night along fashionable Park
and Fifth Avenues. Police arrested 63, while eight policemen and five civilians were treated for injuries, TAE1 APE WITH EATON VO...1:05...The disturbances began about 6, when several thousand demonstrators gathered at the Waldorf Astoria where Nixon was attending a dinner. The trouble began near the Waldorf when one group tried to run a red flab
up an empty pole.
Then police moved in to pull down
ed and club swinging followed AT :18 DEEP BRING S ... THEN EATON VO SIL TAPE TIL END...The more militant groups threw rodks at exclusive stores, br aking six windows in Saks Fifth Avenue. The antiwar demonstration was organized by the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee and joined by many groups---bringing the total to several thousand people President Nixon neither heard nor saw the demonstrators who were kept behind barricades at the
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: New York demonstration],
script,
December 10, 1969, 12:00 p.m.;
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