[pabianice]

Is this the picture of "several thousand malcontents" per Robert Gibbs?

[Jeff Head]

Yep...that's the several thousand right there, filling that intersection and the eight lane road for the mile and a half to the capitol in the picture in your post...and the crowd was moving toward the capitol and it stayed full like that for over 2 hours.

Gibbs: A few thousand. Fox said tens of thousands. NBC said (once) hundreds of thousands: The Daily Mail in the UK covered it and said over a million.

GIBBELS VIEW OF 912: AMERICA AWAKES.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Yes, Note that the crowd is curb to curb on Pennsylvania Avenue with others on the sidewalk and that it stretches all the way to third street from Freedom Plaza. I stood on the corner of the building on the left. The crowd streamed by for an hour and a half at least before I started walking up Pennsylvania Ave. For another half and hour Pennsylvania Ave after I got to third street the crowd was walking on half of the Avenue.

The other thing to keep in mind is that rallies were held across the country not just in DC.