The Vietnam War was the product of Cold War dynamics between the United States and the Soviet Union. (Photo from UW Digital Collections, licensed under CC BY 2.0) Here, student protesters marched down Langdon Street at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the Vietnam War era, January 1965. Other challenges which made it to the Supreme Court concerned a law prohibiting the mutilation or burning of draft cards (upheld) and prior restraint on the press involving the publication of classified information (rejected, Pentagon Papers). The war in Vietnam became the focus of protests that resulted in government attempts to limit First Amendment protections mostly dealing with the right to assemble and what constituted appropriate free speech criticism of the war.
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