Actually more than a half million people showed up from around the country, the arrests alone were almost 13,000, and involved almost 20,000 federal troops police and National Guard.
While all of that hullabaloo was going on in DC, I was sitting on the western slope of Fiji Hill struggling with Russian participles, reading the works of Gothold E. Lessing—and sneaking out in the middle of the night to put up posters attacking liberal speakers such as Earl Warren.
You had all the fun!