![]() ![]() Ultimately, the protestors won a small victory. Protestors carried signs that said, "We're Your Children! Don't Destroy Us" and "Ban the Billy club." Sonny and Cher made a brief appearance during one of the later protests and were consequently booted off the Rose Parade float they were supposed to ride on. ![]() The battle was repeated the next night and periodically over the next month. Some ambitious protestors even tried to roll a city bus, and one protestor tried-but failed-to drop a match into a car's gas tank. Soon, fists and rocks were being thrown, most of them at shop and car windows. According to the Times, one Marine attacked the driver of the other car, and things went downhill from there. However, it grew violent when a car filled with off-duty Marines got into a traffic accident in the congested street. Initially, the protest was peaceful Stills described it as a funeral for Pandora's Box. The crowd, estimated by the LA Times to have been around 1,000-strong, included future Easy Rider stars Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson (check out the Times' look back at this event). This line, however, comes closest to referencing the specific confrontation between the young people protesting efforts to keep them out of the Sunset Strip, and the police officers ("heat") sent to control the crowd on November 12th, 1966. It's little wonder that the song is often read as a broadly aimed commentary on 1960s political dissent, as most of the lines are phrased pretty vaguely.
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