"A Forgotten Work of Political Art"

"The skirmishes back then began before the tower even existed. One day in January 1966, a group of artists announced their intention on a billboard-sized sign on Sunset near La Cienega Boulevard. 'Stop War in Vietnam,' it screamed in 3-foot-tall letters. 'Artists' Protest Tower to Be Erected Here.'
"The very night the sign went up, vandals knocked it down. The artists put up a new one, which was knocked down again, and this time the attackers tried to burn it. A months-long battle had begun."

Jon Wiener in the Los Angeles Times recalls the 1966 Tower of Protest.