Are you backing off of post 10?:
U S Park Service Count--not GOE, not A N S W E R.
The Park Service doesn't do crowd estimates and THIS is a GOE estimate. I'll gladly buy the notion that we had more folks there, so there's no reason to misrepresent (by trying to add Park Service credibility) or inflate numbers.
huh?
I got my information on the numbers from someone who just got a phone call from the Park Department.
The Park Department called the GOE rally leaders and told them the number 30,000 applied to GOE. He told it to me.