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Howard Zinn — Part 1
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speakers at the rally included Dr. BENJAMIN SPOCK, Dr.
MARTIN LUTHER KING and Dr. HOWARD ZINN who called for
support of the "Vietnam Summer Project." ZINN told of
pians to organize high school students, as well as college
students throughout the country during the summer of 1967
to protest the war in Vietnam. He thentioned that the
program had been outlined in literature and that this
literature had already been distributed to some college
students. ZINN in his remarks was eritical of the President
and the war in Vietnam in general. a)
"The Worker", an east coast communist newspaper,
in its edition of May 7, 1967 carried the following
feature article entitled "Urge Peace Rallies, Back Delegates’
Visit to LBJ." This article reads in part as follows: ad
"Spokesmen for the Spring Mobilization Committee
(SMC) announced last week that their May 17 delegation to
the President would remain in Washington beyond that date
if JOHNSON refuses to see them. JOHNSON has not yet
acknowledged the two SMC telegrams requesting -a meeting to
deliver the SMC mandate to stop the killing in Vietnam." G4)
Included in the delegation of speakers was HOWARD
ZINN, Professor of Government, BU. uw)
On October 9, 1967, Boston, bIC
Massachusetts Police Department, furnished to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) a printed "throw-away
leaflet" which had been received by the Boston Police
Department through the United States mails entitled "Resist
October 16." Page 3 of this leaflet reads as follows: (4)
"The Resistance begins on October 16.
"On that day a few thousand young men across the
country will make a complete break with the draft system.
They will deétroy their draft cards or send them back
to the government, and they will write one last letter
to their local boards telling them what they have done.
From that day on, they will work to disrupt the operation
of the Selective Service and the armed forces until the
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