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SV Marchers approach Capitol
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GV Demonstrators in front of Capitol and holding up placards
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SV PAN Demonstrators moving towards building "Peace Now"
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GV Demonstrators cross square and up steps to Capitol (2 shots)
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Background: About two hundred anti-war demonstrators staged a protest in front of the Capitol building in Washington during President Nixon's State of the Union message to Congress on Thursday night (20 Jan)
The demonstrators, mostly relatives of prisoners of war in Vietnam, had planned to stage a vigil on the steps of the Capital while President Nixon was speaking. Police lines, however, kept the demonstrators a hundred yards from the building until the President had concluded his remarks to the joint session of Congress.

The demonstrators carried placards denouncing the continuance of the war in Vietnam and President Nixon's alleged use of the Plight of POWs as a political issue.