People v. Losinger

In the late afternoon of December 24, 1969, defendants, all members of a group called “ Concerned Youth of Area Youth Ministry and Rochester Power and Light ’ ’ proceeded to the downtown área of the City of Rochester for the avowed purpose of staging anti-Vietnam war skits in the presence of Christmas shopping crowds.

Some of the defendants were dressed in biblical costume and others were outfitted in a military manner. The skits themselves were of less than one minute duration, and were performed at various sidewalk locations in the vicinity of major department stores. Spectators watching…