Sons and Daughters

Sons and Daughters

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Sons and Daughters

1967

1h 38m

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The Vietnam War protest movement from the student point of view is the basis for this documentary shot in the San Francisco Bay area and dealing mainly with a protest march from the University of California to the Oakland Army Terminal in 1966.

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