Jalbert v. District of Columbia

MYERS, Associate Judge.

On August 9, 1965, about 800 persons participated in a demonstration in protest of the United States’ involvement in the Viet Nam war. It began with a rally at the Washington Monument. A parade, authorized by the United States Park Service, followed from the Monument grounds up the Mall to Third Street, Northwest. There the demonstrators, including appellants here, ignored numerous requests by the police to disperse and warnings that they would be violating the law if they went past that point and assembled on the Capitol grounds, 1 thereby exceeding the limits of their…