Grateful Dead Dark Star

The Grateful Dead Dark Star opens with a meandering, upbeat tone on footage of huge crowds of peaceful antiwar protestors taken at venues throughout Washington, DC. Early footage in Dark Star shows the DC police in force everywhere in the face of large throngs of peace marchers. Much of the American social spectrum is in evidence at peace demonstrations with signs proclaiming Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and Gays for Peace mingled among hippies and Vietnam War veterans at the White House, along the Potomac River, on the National Mall, and at the Reflecting Pool. Progression of The Grateful Deads DARK STAR into greater discord sets a darker tone as a fitting backdrop to the candlelight antiwar marching of former POWs and wheelchairborne Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The Vietnam Vets angry repudiation of the Vietnam War by littering the home of American presidents with their medals marks a turning point in DARK STAR. Conflict between antiwar demonstrators and battalions of police on fo