On the first morning of the Washington protest, TIME Correspondent, Robert Anson, was covering a group of demonstrators near the Lincoln Memorial, and was swept up in the ensuing "bust" (the charges against him were later dropped). Along with others, he was taken to the makeshift jail that was soon cheerfully labeled "Woodstockade." His report:
EVEN though we stood in the shadows of the city jail, it quickly became evident that this was no ordinary prison. Gamboling over the grass of the 2,500-sq.-yd. enclosure were hundreds of protesters crying, "Welcome, brothers and...
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