Black Philadelphia journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal is arrested and charged with the shooting of a Philadelphia policeman. U.S. forces would retreat in disarray and disgrace within the year. IWW sponsors first sit-down strike in U.S., at a General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York. First U.S. air cavalry helicopter units arrive in Vietnam.
Annual protests follow.
Denmark recognizes right to conscientious objection to military service. Nixon authorizes Christmas bombing of Hanoi. Numerous modern polls have shown that, with questions couched in law and order terms, most Americans oppose the Bill of Rights. I conscientious objectors still imprisoned five years after the end of the war. U.S. backs right wing coup in Laos.