Pictures that show 800k 9/12 crowd in DC are from 1997 Promise Keepers
event
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...arty-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/
... Yet the photograph [claimed to be from 6/12] so widely posted
showed the crowd sprawling all the way to the Washington Monument,
which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.
There's another problem with the photograph: It doesn't include the
National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the
corner of Fourth Street and Independence Avenue that opened on
Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in
the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and
Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum
opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the
"tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.
Also worth noting are the cranes in front of the Smithsonian Museum of
Natural History. According to Randall Kremer, the museum's director of
public affairs, "The last time cranes were in front was in the 1990s
when the IMAX theater was being built."
It appears that the photo was actually taken in 1997 at a rally for
Promise Keepers, a group for Christian men. According to the group's
Web site, nearly 1 million people attended the event. Photos of the
Oct. 4, 1997, event that were posted on various Web sites in 2003,
2008 and earlier this year show either the same picture or a similar
photo that has identical tents and what appear to be TV screens in the
same locations.
Conservative bloggers who originally posted the picture have backed
down.
