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The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam 

October 15, 2012 
Whether it's personal history or world history, we organize time with benchmarks -- moments or events that rise above the minutia and allow us to make some sense of the sequence of it all. On this day in 1969, a true benchmark of American history took place around the country: The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. From the archive, here's Magnum's coverage of the event in Washington, D.C.