In ar effort to block American use of Itazuke airport as a base for B-52s in the war in Vietnam, the Fukouka Prefectural Congress against the Revision of the Consitution and Nuclear Arming began picketing the airport on August 25th. About 100 members set up a barricade of six wooden frames, each about 5 feet high and 13 feet wide on a highway near the end of one of the runways. They ran up 20 red flags on 23-foot poles. attached to four cars. Airport officials feared these would interfere with planes. Police sought to remove the barricades. The leaders of the demonstrators, all members of the Japanese Socialist Party, resisted and were arrested. They said that the demonstrations would go on indefinitely.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 4, No. 11, 23 September 1965
Japanese Socialists Picket Air Base
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