How many more must die? March Against Death: A Vietnam memorial

Yellow poster showing a halftone of children's silhouettes and long shadows on a pavement above the question "How many more must die?". Text announces a "March Against Death -- a Vietnam memorial" in Washington, D.C., 13-15 November 1969, with a mass march and rally on Saturday 15 November. The tell is the memorial framing: the vocabulary of commemoration is applied to an event that is a political demonstration.

Date: 1969
Period: Cold War
Made by: New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Movement
Regime: Nixon Administration
Leader: Richard Nixon
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: War and the military, Home front
Event: Vietnam War
Techniques: Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE?
MARCH AGAINST DEATH--A VIETNAM MEMORIAL
Washington, D.C.
November 13-15, 1969
MASS MARCH AND RALLY -- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Sponsored by The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Room 900, 1029 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: (202) 737-4600
FOR LOCAL INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Read from a 640 px LoC scan; the small sponsor lines are blurred, and the ZIP code and telephone number are read with uncertainty.