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  • Photo Credit: Newsday/ Ken Spencer
  • Long shot of anti-war pickets walking across from the Hilton Hotel with signs against Dean Rusk, who was to speak at Foreign Policy Association Dinner. (Nov. 14, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Bill Senft
  • A cop puts his foot to a fallen demonstrator on a side street just off 6th Avenue in New York City at an anti-Rusk demonstration. (Nov. 14, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Bill Curran
  • Crowds at Moratorium Rally in Bryant Park in New York City trying for a closer view push their way through the barriers. (April 15, 1970)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ J. Michael Dombroski
  • Anti-war demonstrators parade down 5th Avenue towards Sheep Meadow in Central Park. (April 27, 1968)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Dick Yarwood
  • Anti-Vietnam pickets along 7th Avenue near Hotel Americana in Manhattan where a NYS Democratic dinner honoring President Lyndon Johnson was to be held. (June 3, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Stan Wolfson
  • An anti-Vietnam sign being carried by a demonstrator in the crowd at peace march at the United Nations. (April 15, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Stan Wolfson
  • With part of the New York skyline in the background, thousands of demonstrators sit in Sheep Meadow in Central Park protesting the war in Vietnam. (April 27, 1968)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Dick Yarwood
  • Police haul away a marcher from in front of a U.S. government building opposite Washington Irving High School, after a fight developed when police halted the peace march and would not let the crowd go uptown. (Dec. 8, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Alan Raia
  • General view of rally being held by the Peter Fechter Brigade in support of our being in Vietnam. (April 15, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Stan Wolfson
  • Demonstrators at the Moratorium Rally at Bryant Park are seen listening from various points, some climbing to top of the arch over statue of William Cullen Bryant. (Oct. 15, 1969)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ J. Michael Dombroski
  • Veterans and Reservists to End the War in Vietnam march from Columbus Circle to Union Square Park where a rally was held. (April 13, 1968)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ J. Michael Dombroski
  • Anti-war pickets stand with signs behind barricades near the Hilton Hotel where Dean Rusk was to speak at Foreign Policy Association Dinner. (Nov. 14, 1967)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Bill Senft
  • At Sheep Meadow in Central Park, cardboard cut in the shape of an Army tank shows the demonstrators feelings for negotiations to end the war. (April 27, 1968)
    Photo Credit: Newsday/ Dick Yarwood

April 30 marks the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, bringing an official end to the Vietnam War.

The U.S. had pulled the last of their combat troops out of Vietnam by 1973, but a strong presence of U.S. military remained in Saigon until the city fell, forcing the largest helicopter evacuation in history.

In honor of the somber anniversary, we take a look back at NYC during the war.

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