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i ( For a period of approximately one-half hour the marchers waited nonviolently. During this period, (First Name Unknown) Pellinger, who I belicve is the leader of the the group responsible for organizing the march, announced to the group that there was a possibility they may get permission to conduct the march and they should wait awhile until they could yet permission. At about this time, which would have been about 5:30, poople started to leave the march and filter around to the west of the police toward the bridges leading to Michigan Avenue. The first two bridges which they encountered were closed by National Guards, The second bridge was renlly the first trouble that fa mans g fternoon During this time we wore trying to parallel the group moving north in Grant Park. It appeared that 2,000 to 3,000 people in all were heading north in an attempt to cross the bridge. Medical groups were walking along- side, 50 to 100 fect, trying to parallel these people. At this point or at the point where people had leit the march, it became decidedly disorganized and was no longer under the control of marshals. They had left the body of the march as poople just walking away from the march itself. There was no order or ” ae . ‘ : ‘ Re sR eo : a es ee