Million Man March, ok how many showed up

[MrPlankton]

I want to know how many showed up. Was it really 2 million? Or was this some sort of media hypeshow.

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[Oakman]

MrPlankton wrote:

Was it really 2 million?

The figure I keep hearing, from the media, is somewhere in the neighborhood of 800,000 showed up for the million man march. Yesterday's crowd has been estimated as well over two million.

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[Lost User]

Crowds are usually seriously overestimated. From the air photos I've seen, I doubt it's anywhere near 2 million. Cheers, Drew.

[Oakman]

Looks like you're right. Estimates have been revised dowards. But again the media is reporting it. Though early estimates Tuesday ranged as high as 2 million, satellite images of Obama's swearing-in suggested the actual size of the throng may have been closer to half that, said Clark McPhail, a sociologist who has been analyzing crowds on the mall since the 1960s.[^]

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[Roger Wright]

It was closer to one million. On the bright side, though, only a couple of them had to ask for the day off work.

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