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Howard Zinn — Part 1

249 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Howard Zinn · 243 pages OCR'd
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BS 100-35505 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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