1.
LV TILT DOWN..FROM WASHINGTON MEMORIAL TO WOMEN GATHERED AT THE SYLVAN THEATRE
0.05

2.
SV WOMAN WITH CHILDREN SEATED
0.08

3.
LV WOMEN IN PROCESSION LEAVING
0.13

4.
LV WOMEN WALKING WHITE HOUSE IN B/G
0.16

5.
SV WOMEN WALK TOWARDS
0.20

6.
SV MRS D. WILSON PRESENTS PETITION TO SGT. J.H. ROBBINS AT ENTRANCE TO WHITE HOUSE
0.25

7.
CU J.H. ROBBINS
0.27

8.
SV ROBBINS LEAVES GATES TO ENTER WHITE HOUSE AREA
0.30

9.
GV WOMEN OUTSIDE GATES MARCHING
0.35

10.
SV TOWARDS WITH PLACARDS
0.38

11.
LV WOMEN OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE WITH PLACARDS
0.42

12.
SV PAN..FROM WOMEN WITH PLACARDS TO WHITE HOUSE
0.48

13.
SV WOMEN TOWARDS WITH PLACARDS
0.51

14.
CU GIRL WITH UMBRELLA (NO PLACE TO HIDE)
0.55

15.
SV TWO WOMEN WITH CHILDREN IN PUSHCART
0.59

16.
SV MRS WILSON ENTERS GROUNDS OF RUSSIAN EMBASSY
1.03

17.
SV STANDING ON STEPS ON RUSSIAN EMBASSY WITH LETTER FOR MRS KHRUSHCHEV
1.07

18.
CU LETTER ADDRESSED TO MRS KHRUSHCHEV
1.13

19.
SV MRS WILSON PRESSING BELL
1.16

20.
BACK V..ENTERS RUSSIAN EMBASSY
1.21

21.
GV PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE EMBASSY
1.22



Initials TDH/V/JH/ES


SEE PROD. NO. 8045/61

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Background: HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN WIVES AND MOTHERS, MANY WITH CHILDREN IN BABY CARRIAGES, GATHERED AT THE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL NOV 1, BEFORE MARCHING PEACEFULLY TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE SOVIET EMBASSY, WHERE THEY PRESENTED PETITIONS CALLING FOR "AN END TO THE ARMS RACE INSTEAD OF THE HUMAN RACE".

THE DEMONSTRATORS WERE PART OF A NATION-WIDE PROGRAMME OF SIMULTANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS HELD BY WOMEN IN AMERICAN CITIES AND SMALL TOWNS IN PROTEST AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTING AND THE RESULTANT POLLUTION OF THE WORLD'S ATMOSPHERE. THEIR PETITIONS WERE ADDRESSED TO MRS KENNEDY, WIFE OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT, AND MRS KHRUSHCHEV, WIFE OF THE SOVIET PRIME MINISTER, CALLING UPON THEM TO JOIN IN MAKING "THE SURVIVAL OF MANKIND THE ONE GREAT CAUSE OF OUR TIME".

FOUNDED IN SEPTEMBER BY MRS DAGMAR WILSON, A WASHINGTON MOTHER OF THREE AND THE ILLUSTRATOR OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, THE "STRIKERS FOR PEACE" MOVEMENT GREW TO ITS PRESENT STRENGTH WHEN FRIENDS OF MRS WILSON WROTE TO EVERYONE ON THEIR CHRISTMAS CARD LISTS URGING SIMILAR ACTION. SPONTANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS BY WOMEN HAVE SO FAR BEEN RECORED IN A MANY OTHER AMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS.