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Anti-Vietnam war protest in Montreal

Photomontage with a black and white image on the left side of a policeman holding a young man by the underarms and on the right side an older man with white hair holding out a magazine and talking towards the camera in a room full of shelves and books. The man in both images is Michael Nerenberg.

Image: (Left) Arrest during an anti-Vietnam war protest in Montreal, January 1968. The Montrealer magazine, vol. 42, no 1. ARCMTL collection (Right) Michael Nerenberg at ARCMTL in 2021, holding out a The Montrealer magazine issue, in which his picture appears. Louis Rastelli (photographer), copyright 2021

 

Credit: ARCMTL collection. Interview was conducted in Montreal on March 9, 2021 with Richard King by Louis Rastelli, Director of ARCMTL.
Duration: 0:42 min

Michael Nerenberg, who attended many concerts at The New Penelope, holds up an issue of the magazine The Montrealer at the ARCMTL archive centre. The magazine’s cover includes an image of him being arrested at a demonstration against the Vietnam war in Montreal in 1968.

Here, Richard King, a friend of Gary Eisenkraft’s, talks about attending this same demonstration.

Transcription:

Richard King: (…) and the other time I felt threatened was in a Vietnam [War] protest in front of the American consulate on, umm.. McGregor, uh, [it was] called McGregor at the time. It was before they moved the consulate [inaudible]. And again, the cops charged the crowd. Um, I’m, um, usually pretty good at, uh, getting away, uh, keeping out of trouble, seeing where the trouble was and then making sure I was somewhere else. Even in spite of the cops, in spite of the crowds at Concordia [University] or Sir George [University], I didn’t feel, uh, I wasn’t nervous.