Anti-Soviet Demonstration
Anti-Soviet Demonstration
Adult, predominantly Caucasian, men and women, many holding up signs, gathered across the street from the White House for an anti-Soviet demonstration following the shooting down of Korean Airliner Flight 007; different adult men, off camera, speaking to the protestors. "Hitler, Stalin, Andropov" sign. Adult Korean man, standing among adult, predominantly Caucasian men and women, holding "Murder: Made in USSR" sign. Men and women holding several protest signs; "The Massacre of Flight 007 - This Time We Will Not Forget"; photograph of U.S. House Representative Lawrence McDonald (D-GA) on signs; White House in BG. Adult Caucasian man holding "Marxism, Leninism, Murderism" sign; White House and Washington Monument in the BG. Sign held up high: "I Know 269 People Who Won't Support a Nuclear Freeze". Sign: "Wanted: For the Murder of Flight 007" and a photograph of Yuri Andropov. Cheers heard off camera, adult male speaker, off camera, calls for the expulsion of Soviet diplomats from the United States; adult Caucasian men chant "expel Soviets now!" Adult Korean man squatting in the grass with a sign equating the hammer and sickle with the swastika.
Anti-Soviet Demonstration
Anti-Soviet Demonstration after the shooting down of Korean Airliner flight 007. Adult Caucasian men and women gathered behind a "Remember Larry McDonald" banner; Tryggvi McDonald, son of U.S. House Representative Lawrence McDonald (D-GA) on stage, surrounded by adult Caucasian men and women. Row of television cameras with adult Caucasian and African American cameramen, obscured, filming; "Communism Kills" chants heard off camera. McDonald thanks the protestors for their concern over human rights, list the many human rights and political abuses the Soviet Union has committed, calls the regime murderous, and demands the same accountability that citizens in the United States would suffer for these crimes. He calls on the White House and Congress to take strong action against the Soviet Union, including halting all aid and trade with them and their satellites, withdraw recognition of the Soviet Union and cease all diplomatic relations. He ends by saying that if appeasement of the Soviet Union will end, then his father's death will not be in vain.