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Photo shows a stadium with a stage in the middle of the field, a crowd of people and reporters standing in front of the stage, and people sitting on the bleachers behind the stage. On the stage is a podium with a woman, apparently Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other people sitting in chairs. Two banners are hanging in front of the stage, "Vietcong-NLF Never Called Us Nigger" and "...The War in Vietnam." On the back is handwritten, "during Mrs. King's speech crowd had thinned out." From the Oakland Tribune, April 15, 1967, article titled "35,000 in S.F. Peace March": "Despite a chill wind and the threat of more rain, about 35,000 marchers protesting the Vietnam War, swung up San Francisco's Market Street this morning, en route to a peace rally at Kezar Stadium. ...The San Francisco parade was composed of as varied a group as ever rallied to a cause: hippies in beards, sandals and bare feet; babies in prams; properly dressed collegians; clerical collars and matronly mothers." This article does not mention Mrs. King's presence at the rally but another article, "King Affirms Viet Stand at Stanford" by Larry Spears, discusses Dr. King's visit to Stanford the day before. This photo was not used in the Oakland Tribune.