d by the voters" (Spector, 30-31). Although several hundred colleges experienced teach-ins, most campuses were untouched by this circumstance. Nevertheless, the teach-ins had the desired impact when they contributed to President Johnson's decision to address at Johns Hopkins University on April 7, 1965 concerning the Vietnam issue (Gaullucci, 47). The address tried to respond to the teach-ins campus protest activity. This speech was one of the first major examples of the antiwar movement getting to the government. By the mid- 1960s, even President Johnson's advisors were realizing that the tide of public opinion had begun to turn against Johnson on the Vietnam issue (Katsiaficas, 8). The Vietnam 6 The use and impact of teach-ins faded when the college students went home during the summer of 1965, but other types of protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it (Gettleman, 56). The first major antiwar march on Washington D.C. took place in April of 1965. It was organized by the Students for a Democratic Society, and attracted over twenty-five thousand people (McCormick, 37). College students made up a majority of the protestors in almost any gathering. "However the antiwar movement included people from almost every walk of life"(McCormick, 35). "Many college professors, businesspeople, parents of draft-age youth, religious leaders, doctors, lawyers, politicians and entertainers also voiced their objections to American incolvement in the Vietnam War" (Jeffreys-Jones, 77). As far as famous protest movements go, one that will forever stick out as a turning point, is that of the Kent State protest which occured on May 4, 1970. This event started out when a large group of students "gathered on the campus of Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio to protest... the Vietnam War"(Hershberger, 51). The consequent attention this assembly attracted resulted in the National Guard being sent in, under the current The Vietnam 7 President Richard Nixon'...
