A million or more rock Washington--Taxpayer march could be biggest rally ever in capital.

WND ^ | 9/14/2009 | WND

[Vendome]

well she is 99 and my very dear friend of 20+ years.

When she is called home I will have nothing but choices.

Right now she requires assistance

[A.Hun]

God bless you!

[A.Hun]

Please check this revised estimate for max number.

1 mile long route. Park service says 90 feet wide but I’m sticking with 75 feet wide because of cars on the sides, and my experience (I walked on the far right side with room between myself and the curb.)

I’m also going to stay with the 30” by 30” density. That’s 6.5 square feet. Supposedly people in an elevator can get by with 2.5 sq feet, but 6 sq feet is commonly used for marches.

I originally said a 20 minute walk, google says 25 minutes so I will use that. The march lasted three hours, from 10:00 to 1:00 solid (of course there were some stragglers, but the majority took Pennsylvania in that time period.)

So

We have 5280 feet times 75 feet= 396,000 square feet.

396,000/6.5= 60,923 per pass.

180 minutes/25 minutes = 7.2 passes

7.2 times 60,923 = 438,646 people by this method.

Thank you all for your help!

[Vendome]

Good work

[Dr.Deth]

In my case I want to be accurate. I don't believe a damn thing I see in the media because of things like this where they obviously twist and bend and obfuscate things that are inconvenient to them, while puffing up and glorifying that which they favor. All of the time. All I am willing to believe is what I see, and what there's hard evidence for.

The evidence I saw with my eyes on the Mall and around the Capitol pool indicated a couple hundred thousand, minimum. I wasn't in the Pennsylvania Ave march, so a lot depends on whether those folks at the Capitol were the same folks that marched, or whether the march was still on. My time at the pool occurred around noonish, and it was already shoulder-to-shoulder and very difficult to make headway.

There were significant numbers of marchers that were exiting the Capitol area at that time, as well as people still arriving from the Mall side.

The grass area of the Mall which was available - between 3rd and 4th - wasn't unpopulated, but wasn't shoulder-to-shoulder either. The Capitol shot toward Washington Monument doesn't make that area clearly differentiated from the blocked-off black family event which shows up on the photo as an expanse of tents and grass.

If a significant portion of the Freedom Plaza marchers were still en route, then the couple-hundred thousand minimum number can be safely revised upward, but for now, that's my personal eyeball + photographic evidence guesstimate.

[Steve Van Doorn]

in 1920 they had a total of 4 million people in their inter membership. you are saying every single person went to Washington? The only pics i see of that event wasn’t very big.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Also if you notice from that chart it only allows people in the grass area which covers about 5.5 square acres (reverse there figures to get the 5.5 sq acres) There were people in this event that spilled over that chart.

But that chart is about the best we can get on the size. so if we assume the density of this event was one person per 5 sqft then this event had close to 1 million people. If someone can show the density was different i would like to hear it.

thanks

[the invisib1e hand]

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