Peace and Anti-War Films

Everyman

1962, 21 min., black/white, DVD

Everyman is the name of a boat built in Sausalito by the Bay Area peace movement to sail into Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones to protest nuclear testing.

The film covers Everyman's first and only voyage on May 27, l962 when it sailed out the Golden Gate only to be stopped twenty miles out by the U.S. Coast Guard who arrested the crew and impounded the boat.

Protests included sit-in demonstrations at the U.S. Marshall's office where Joan Baez took part, singing "We Shall Overcome." The crew was eventually sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Topics: anti-nuclear protests, war resistance, ban the bomb, sit-ins, protest songs, 1960s.

Other peace and anti-war films:

"Protesting Nuclear Tests 1962" from Everyman

March against the Vietnam War 1967 Protesting nuclear tests in the Pacific
March against the Vietnam War 1967
Click for slideshow of
Anti-War Mobilization – San Francisco 1967
"STOP NUCLEAR TESTING"
Click for slideshow of
Everyman

All photos © Paul Richards

Cover of Critical Focus
Critical Focus:
The Black and White
Photographs of
Harvey Wilson Richards

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