1963 civil rights march eclipsed by MMM

[gun-fucious]

According to this washington post article from October 2000,
the MMM had 750,000
and the 1963 march had 250,000 attendees

*Crowd estimates were made by the National Park Service through 1995, when harsh disagreements over the agency's numbers led Congress to ban officials from providing crowd counts on the Mall. Subsequent estimates are from organizer

yep, Ole Rosie said at the end of the "march":

ROSIE O'DONNELL
Emcee, Million Mom March

"All right everyone, you did it! You did it, we did it together! 750,000 here, millions more across America. The NRA- you have
been put on notice, the gig is up! Donna Dees-Thomases, a suburban New Jersey housewife, was fed up one day, this is the
result of that passion! This is the result!

Rosie says it and the Post prints it as a fact

They are claiming that the MMM was the largest rally ever on the mall

 

[C.R.Sam]

Subsequent estimates are from organizer

Nuff said.

Sam

 

[4v50 Gary]

Rosie counts as 250k.

 

[KC]

"Rosie counts as 250k."
No no no...*people*, gary, not *mass*

 

[bountyhunter]

As I learned when I bought an STI:

Quantity and quality are very often inversely proportional in the circumstances of this world.

 

[gun-fucious]

http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp

theres a picture of Chuck Heston at the 1963 march here
www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/protests.html

 

[GSB]

They are claiming that the MMM was the largest rally ever on the mall

There were a lot of people at the Nurenburg rallies too, IIRC.

 

[Zedicus]

There were a lot of people at the Nurenburg rallies too, IIRC.

I do beleve you are correct...

Sides, they think the gun comunity are weak because not as many showed up, when they couldn't be more wrong!

 

[gun-fucious]

The MMM will return to the Capitol Mall this coming Mothersday

Will you?

 

[fallingblock]

On one of the D.C. radio talkshows....

John Lott pinned Rebecca Peters after she claimed 750,000 'marchers' for MMM....the figure was a TENFOLD exaggeration

 

[gun-fucious]

yep back in the TFL daze, i took an news chopper photo and over estimated the area occcupied by 10 percent, established a 10x 10 grid and checked over head photos like the one above to estimate density.

they had 50-100 thousand people there

The DC metro was slightly above usual ridership that day
and nearly everyone who bused in to the stadium metro-ed to the mall

 

[Standing Wolf]

...the figure was a TENFOLD exaggeration...

Only ten?

 

[fallingblock]

Well...at least ten....

but with all the hoopla in the Clintoon admin. and the news media, one could have gotten the impression that that 750,000 'estimate' was a conservative one.

 

[FW]

When the million commie mommies marched, I followed the event on television. The highest number I heard anyone report that weekend in DC was 150,000.

Supposedly there were smaller commie mommie marches in other parts of the country and there were reports that the total of everyone everywhere was 750,000.

Now, the claim is there were 750,000 in DC.

This is how I remeber it. Perhaps I'm incorrect. I wish I would have saved news articles from then.

If anyone has any references to such events from that time, please post them.

 

[gun-fucious]

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36069

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