The Unseen Crowd At The Restoring Honor Rally

From Human Events:

VIDEO: The Unseen Crowd at the Beck Rally


by Connie Hair



09/02/2010







Like hundreds of thousands of others, I attended the Glenn Beck “Restoring Honor” rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C. last Saturday. The crowds were massive. I figured the best way to document the size and scope of the crowd was in one continuous video shot, no cuts, no edits, walking from the back to the front.



The walk took over 43 minutes.



Starting at the Washington Monument as people continued to pour in at 10:00 am, walking through the crowds using the hill at the monument as amphitheater seating, I made my way through the crowd and to the World War II Memorial, which was jam packed with photographers atop every place they could crawl to get a better angle on the Mall shot.



The video next takes us through the WWII Memorial and around the side of the Reflecting Pool crowd to the overflow field where there were two Jumbotron screens set up with an emergency fire break sectioned off in the middle of the field. Equipment trucks were set up and emergency vehicles which could pass through should the need arise.



As I made my way down the sidewalk under the trees with the overflow field to my left and the Reflecting Pool to my right, I realized that I was only halfway down the length of the Reflecting Pool when the crowds got so dense I could go no further.



And the steps at the Lincoln Memorial -- the site of the event -- were still nowhere in sight.



There were massive crowds under those trees that you can’t see in the aerial shots, but you can see them in this video!



I next walked through the fire break in the overflow field (it was the only route to the Lincoln Memorial through the crowd) over and across to the Korean War Memorial and back around to the Lincoln Memorial. The road between the event and the actual Lincoln Memorial was open to pedistrians walking through. On the left side of the shot is the big marble building (where the Big Guy sits) and to the right looking down the Mall and the Reflecting Pool is the Beck.



It was an awesome sight.



I then crossed around to the other side of the Reflecting Pool and walked down the sidewalk at Constitution Avenue where my camera ran out of disk space.



Since the walk took over 43 minutes, we've speeded it up to around six times the speed it was filmed to get the whole thing to fit onto YouTube!



It was no small task! Thanks to Patrick Frank in the Human Events video studio for his persistence in getting this to a size and speed that would upload!



There is absolutely no doubt there were hundreds of thousands of people in attendance at the rally. A breathtaking sight and a glorious day for patriots in the nation’s capitol.



Due to the speed of the video, the shots are a bit jerky. But the video is shot in HD so when playing the video you can hit the PAUSE button at any point to get a quality still shot of the massive size of the crowd in any of the areas I walked through! Enjoy!











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Connie Hair writes daily as HUMAN EVENTS' Congressional correspondent. She is a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference. You can follow Connie on Twitter @ConnieHair.