Trade Union Pro-Nixon March Buffalo, 1970 WBEN-TV
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- WBEN AM-FM-TV Newsman Lou Douglas (1930-2015) talks with union hardhats marching on Buffalo City Hall in May, 1970, in support of President Nixon, the Vietnam War, and the American flag. Featured is Buffalo Mayor Frank Sedita, along with an estimated 3,000 marchers in Niagara Square on Flag Day 1970. This amazing video is a first generation dub from a quad video tape that was in Lou's personal collection. WBEN-TV Channel 4, Buffalo's first TV station, became WIVB-TV in 1977.
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I'm the apprentice Ironworker in the interview. 55 years later, I'm proud of what I did. When the interview got cut off, I was about to say that I had two brothers in the Army, one who was a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam, and they both agreed with me. This meant no disrespect to the troops, and was directed at the politicians who send us to war without thinking through the consequences. The lies told by politicians, such as the whole of Southwest Asia falling if we leave Viet Nam, should be remembered today. Five years after Nixon surrendered (his secret plan), the North Vietnamese fought a border war with Red China over disputed territory. It seems ridiculous now, but 50,000 of my brothers died helping the wrong side in a civil war that we had no business being in. Remember that when today's politicians want us to get involved in more civil wars that are the result of religious sectarians fighting each other. I'm now a retired Ironworker, with a daughter and son-in-law who are both Persian Gulf veterans who agree with me. Don't make my grandsons suffer for the same mistakes. Bill Murphy
+Bill Murphy Steve Cichon here, Bill... i posted this video, and interviewed Lou about his career in journalism several times through the years. Every time he mentioned you-- The kid who almost got pummeled (and almost got him pummeled) for standing up for what he believed in. Lou passed away earlier this year-- I think he would have loved to reconnect with you. I'm glad you found this video, and glad you were finally able to finish up your comments 45 years later. --
steve@buffalostories.com
Bill Murphy You were very brave that day, and the only patriot I saw on that clip.
Bill Murphy in
Total respect Guv'nor!
"The lies told by politicians, such as the whole of Southwest Asia falling if we leave Viet Nam, should be remembered today"
First off, it's Southeast Asia. Secondly, the domino theory was EXACTLY what happened after we left. Never heard of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rogue? I hope you feel very proud that you in your small part, helped Cambodian communists kill millions in the process of "restructuring" their society.
Lou Douglas was my grandfather, thank you for posting this, it’s great to hear his voice and see him again
J Lauda Music incredible broadcast ..
Can’t believe they never taught this in school !?
My grandparents lived in Buffalo around the early 70s and remember seeing this in person.
I'm surprised these Union Workers supported Nixon a Republican
Althusser has some good ideas as to why people vote against their interests
Many of these guys had family fighting in Vietnam while the rich kid revolutionaries burned our flags and spat on the working class vets coming back home.
Things were not good for the working class in 1970. The war, inflation, and the protesters running amok. Not a good year for our country as well.
@@jarrettcalder757Very true.
WE WILL FIGHT AND DIE FOR NIXON! NIX GANG GANG GANG!
Lol smooth brains I love it
yeah brotha LETSS GOOOO
Blind loyalty or patriotism can be a dangerous thing. Quite ironic given what the USA is dealing with from 2016 going forward...
More like 1916 when Woodrow Wilson sent troops into WW1 despite promises of neutrality not that the US was truly neutral due to supplies for Britain and France.
True. Traitors need to be rooted out regardless of what their party affiliation is.
Hating your country is worse.
@@gabesteinberg6244traitors like the antifa blm goons I agree
@cliffdariff74 the government is not the country, trying to make your country look in a better image through positive actions is the best thing a citizen can do.
Loyalty should be to humanity not to one land, try to open your mind instead being prejudice.
It is kinda cool to see the construction workers give that Abbie Hoffman wannabe an attitude adjustment
those construction workers would sell out their own sons to go be drafted in a war. those construction workers were bums
So you support violence against people just because they disagree with you? I'm pretty sure you would've condemned a progressive protestor if he tried to snatch a sign away from a conservative.
Notice how it centered around the flag, a symbol, but something so general it could mean anything/nothing. but what about the war, the answer was alot less convincing, 'we need to support it,' they couldn't explain anything, what about unions and the wage freeze under Nixon, again too complicated. I was actually in support of the construction workers here, but it was just an angry retaliation without substantial aims, they were ultimately gamed by the conservatives by a ridiculous sense of patriotism while they died in wars and lost power in the workplace.
So true.
you're gay dude nixon is like one of the most elite and based presidents we've ever had lmao
Workers proceeded to beat the man who accused them of being war mongers #irony
That hippie got what was coming to him!
I'm a war mongerer. A 3 combat tour war mongerer. But...you spineless hippie soft hearted bastard bags of blood and skin need people like me who will go into the fight, stomp our enemies eyeballs out, then return home and act like nothing ever happened. Without people like me, this nation is a giant pussy waiting to get fucked. So from your new favorite war mongerer...you're welcome.
@@Mr.Deleterious damn you're so hard for attacking third world countries who pose no threat to America. Most of you lot are pussies who come back with ptsd 😂 don't act up now
HAHAHAHA
@@ConcernedCitizen5514 why
I never knew what Lou Douglas looked like. Thanks!
Sheep are sheep. Doesn’t matter who they claim as their shepherd.
Time to reform the unions either by replacing them with new ones or by cleaning out the leadership of the corrupt executives who give themselves bonuses and pay raises as membership declines. The 1970 Hard Hats are the unionists we need today.
Well the reason why unions are so fucked up is because of the republican party. Hard hats had went out in behalf of the republicans, Seems kinda fuckin fishy if ya ask me
@@davidcancinos58 The Republican Party, despite its flaws, has been trying to clean up the corruption in unions while the Democratic Party has been nurturing such corruption since they benefit from it. The union executives complain about Right to Work since it means they would have to work harder and smarter to get more memberships and since it means they cannot take agency fees from those who do not even qualify to join the unions. This means the executives will be less likely to give themselves pay raises and bonuses even as union membership declines.
Also, public sector unions with the exception of firefighter unions are a disgrace to organized labor since they bargain against the taxpayers and the voters (actual blue collar workers). Teacher unions have defended bad teachers and treated students like car parts on an assembly line and while much of the issues of public education may have to do with administration and the Department of Education, I have yet to see a teacher union organize massive protests against such policies. They will go on strike to get pay raises and send more money to union HQ though.
@@DerekCivilDefense sure they have lol
@@davidcancinos58 most of my co workers will go along with anything for a good meal, then they forget what it was supposed to be about.
What unions? Less than 7% of workers belong to private sector unions today.
Now you made this old Vietnam War combat veteran cry.
There is millions of Cambodian citizens' worth of blood during Pol Pot's reign on someone's hands.
The media still laughs at the "Domino Theory." Millions of massacred Cambodians aren't.
@@thomasaquinas157 Who defeated Pol Pot? Communist Vietnam did.
@P T your nuts
You realize that pol pot was Funded by the CIA right?
God bless America
A year later Bethlehem Steel laid off 10,000 workers and half the labor fakers parading went without work - total karmic event. Buffalo would never recover - Vietnam would become a peaceful nation with a healthy economy and freedom and prosperity.
Yes, Vietnam has seen unprecedented economic growth since the 1990s thanks to "Socialism with Vietnamese Characteristics." Their GDP growth has outclassed the USA in every year since 1987 and was barely affected by the 2008 crisis.
@@thejusticechannel13 When you rise from the stone age there is only one way to go and that is up. Socialism sucks and so do losers like yourself.
Googlelee Goo lol calm your tits
No such thing as karma. It was just a rough economic period for that region not to mention the managers wanted to dispose of bad publicity regardless of their own personal opinions.
Communists have never stopped trying to destroy America. It’s as true today as it was 50 years ago. The only good communist is a dead communist.
If President Trump brings back enough manufacturing jobs from overseas, he could build up a hard hat army of his own.
LOL!!!!!
1:04 That's gotta hurt.
How did you make your intro?
Ironically from what I have read and know about Nixon over the years he was always planing on ending Vietnam from the time he went into office, but it took him time to do so. People criticized him for taking so long but look at Obama and Iraq/Afghanistan, no different except the shoe was on the other foot with Democrats and Republicans. Remember it started with the CIA during Kennedy's administration and went full scale under LBJ and ultimately was why LBJ decided not to run a second term because he knew he did not have the support because of the war that had started under his term. Both Kennedy and LBJ where Democrats. So why these guys are all saying they support the war and Nixon seems strange to me. I grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo in the 70"s and enjoyed seeing this, although I was 4yr old when it was aired and of course don't remember it.
K2bew Obama went back into Iraq in August 2014.
Greetings, is this footage available to license?
I think in those days it must have been tough to be a libertarian conservative who disagreed with both the hippies and the pro-war right-wingers. At least nowadays, the right has a more libertarian mindset.
Get outa here!
@@KittredgeRitter people on the left have zero to do with the old left
LMAO
This is awesome, people could express both sides of a tough issue, they could stand for the flag , or be against the war at same time, yeah some scuffles, but at least they didn't burn the fuckimg city, like the fools did in 2020.
Accept there was no basis for this in the first place.
Yeah, they only beat the shit out of someone who dared argue and, in the case of the NYC one, rushed and beat a crowd with no logical argument for their side beyond “war good conservatives good”
@@tarfielarchelone2674 not if you were South Vietnamese my friend, forced to become a communist.
Back when we were a white country.
To bad. 🖕🏾
Thank you for saying it because they might has well put on white sheets
Proud timeframe for sure.
I bet the ironworker apprentice didn't have a job after that!
A little problem with the title of this video. Should be something like "Pro Fascist Rally, Boston 1970" Or perhaps "My Country Right or Wrong Rally" may be less contentious. ^_^
And every fascist administration needs its stormtroopers out in the streets to beat dissidents. Nixon actually contacted union leaders to have them organize these rallies..and in return Nixon did things for the union leaders...like later freeing teamsters' president Jimmy Hoffa who was in a federal prison on racketeering charges.
Alexott Christ you are fucking insane
do you even know what fascism is or your just one of those mental lefty that would call anyone a fascist
It is always enjoyable watching a pussy socialist get his guts stomped out. Just saying ...
@@joshuag5756 you could argue against him but the comments in favor of these guys paints an obvious picture.
Beautiful . We need to get out their and support President Trump
Oh I would had loved to join the parade with my rebel flag... or swastika one even.