The peace rally clashes generated sustained multi-outlet press coverage for months

Evidence

“42 Arrested in Times Sq. In Clashes at Peace Rally,” NYT (3/4/62), 1; Michael Smith, “The Times Square Melee: Beck’s Condition Okay; McReynolds Blasts Sitters,” VV (3/8/62), 1; Norman M. Ackerman, “Times Square cont” (letter), VV (4/12/62); Mead to Rice, letter (Apr 1962) Reginald Gay collection, NYPL Performing Arts; Mekas, “MJ,” VV (3/29/62), 13; Mekas, “MJ,” VV (6/7/62), 10. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1727

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media coverage can bestow a movement more reach than its own organizing ever could — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 73; Well-planned protest spectacles can dictate front-page coverage — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 369
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Media coverage can bestow a movement more reach than its own organizing ever could — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 73; Well-planned protest spectacles can dictate front-page coverage — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 369