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Hard Hat riot
The Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street and Broadway on Friday, May 8th, 1970 occurred in New York City when about 1,000 Vietnam anti-war protesters and over two hundred construction workers from the World Trade Center site and other construction sites in the Wall Street area of the city clashed. While it was one event in a tumultuous domestic month during the Vietnam War, the local media used it as a symbol of the extreme conditions to which the domestic situation had expanded.
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