Photos show 65,000 at peak of S.F. rally

SFGate ^ | 2/21/2003 | Wyatt Buchanan

[gaucho]

San Francisco -- A survey using sophisticated aerial photography of Sunday's anti-war march and rally in San Francisco has produced results that indicate a far smaller crowd than the 200,000 protesters estimated by police and event organizers.

The results of the independent survey, commissioned by The Chronicle and SFGate.com, cast doubt on traditional counting methods and contradict the crowd estimate of 200,000, which was reported in this newspaper and news media around the world. Crowd size in a demonstration is important because organizers tend to use it as evidence of support for their cause.

[gaucho]

Just like in NYC, the crowd numbers where way over inflated.

Related article on how the crowd was counted: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/21/MN20213.DTL

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This always happens, just like the "Million" Mom March.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

rally

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

only 65,000
saddam paid for 200,000
now he wants his money back

[Texas Eagle]

Other tributary marches and people in side streets pushed the number to between 150,000 and 200,000, he said.

Yeah, well....how many of those people were just bums looking for a place to take a ****?