Tonight's flamebait debate: The Million Man March

[LoZoccolo]

How many men were at The Million Man March?

[AllieB]

1. Hi LoZoccolo

I believe there were less than 1 million men at the Million Man March. Do I win some sort of prize? :-)

[LoZoccolo]

3. No.

The answer is a matter of your opinion.

[madeline_con]

2. Weren't they mostly locals....

didn't have to march far?

[sundog]

5. no, i happened to be driving west in october of 1995 on i-40

and my path was that of the groups coming from the march... and there weren't just a few buses

[madeline_con]

8. Hey, this si a flamer thread, right?

;)

[sundog]

9. yeah... knowing the trends of the op, i'm sure it was designed

to piss people off

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. It was something like four hundred thousand, no?

It was the "looks like a million men if you're drunk and seeing double or need to clean your eyeglasses march"

[sundog]

6. Crowd Size Controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March

March organizers estimated the crowd size at between 1.5 and 2 million people, while the United States Park Police estimated the crowd size at 400,000. The Park Police figure was reported widely by U.S. mass media. Farrakhan threatened to sue the National Park Service due to the controversial low estimate from the Park Police. After the Million Man March, the Park Police decided to discontinue providing official crowd estimates.

Three days after the march, Dr. Farouk El-Baz and a team of ten research associates and graduate students at the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University released an estimate of 870,000 people in with a margin of error of about 25 percent, which meant the actual size of the crowd at that time could have been as low as 650,000 or as high as 1.1 million. They arrived at this figure by enlarging aerial photographs taken by the Park Service and counting crowd density.

They later revised that figure to 837,000 +/- 20%, or from 670,000 to 1,004,000. This revision was made when the Park Service provided original 35mm negatives; the first count was made with scanned printed photographs.



hard to trust what the park police say... they also gave a bullshit figure for the march for women's lives last april...

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Yeah...and generally every other massive gathering/protest in DC...

numbers are always underreported, it seems. I was being snarky, though. :D

[Skinner]

10. Locking

Pointless.