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-, ° . - \ 1 _ . . eee pO : me erty “~ le i » ° a ... VIETNAM DAY COMMITTEE —— The Vietnam Day Committee (VDC) has been identified ~. in its literature and in the public press as having originated: as an ad hoc-type organization which started the Vietnam : Days Community Meeting on May 21-22, 1965, at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, California. A press con- ference was held by the VDC on May 20, 1965, at the Durant ~ Hotel, Berkeley. .There it was annotinced that the gommunity meeting was to -inform the community about Vietnam. and was not intended ta be a balanced program. oo As reported in the press, the theme of the entire program of the May 21-22, 1965, community meeting was "Get Out of Vietnam.” -UC Professor ROBERT SCALAPINO, as quoted ’ in the "San Francisco Examiner," denounced thetaffair as a . travesty whose objective was propaganda. UC Professor AARON WILDAVSKY was said to have described it as unbalanced, unfair,and uneducational, Subsequent VDC literature has described the VDC as having been organized formally after the May 21-22, 1965, meeting and to now maintain headquarters at 2407 Fultzn Street, Berxeiey, Its efforts include door-to-door propagandizing, passing petitions urging the President of the United States to change U, S. policy-in Vietnam,and holding rallies and demonstrations, all directed toward ending U. $. -Antervention in Vietnam,