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13. I was 30, I watched. Was also at the then Biggest March/Protest (Anti-Nuke Weapons) on June 12, 1982 in NYC!

Fri May 1, 2026, 06:29 PM

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Over 1 million people!
From Central Park down to the UN.
I think Bruce played in CP and possibly Midnight Oil did, too.

Anyway, I have a vague memory of walking downhill on Broadway upper Washington Heghts to a ?community center for a post-film discussion.

And as a NYC'r I'd already seen from ?my 20's a concentric circles map of Nuclear Bomb Destruction & Damage of our 5 Burroughs with The Empire State Building as ground zero.
Ohhh, joy! 😑

And Just remembered ...
in the mid-70's NYC first stop was a tour from Japan of Atomc Bomb artifacts. Photos, the then iconic "stopped clock" (when bomb exploded), the most striking was a piece of wall where bc the flash was so bright it "etched" shadows of the people near it into the structure.

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