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American Friends Service Committee — Part 6
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UNI1£D STATES gueiiaabield OF sJSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
In Reply, Please Refer to ' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
File No.
March’ 5, 1965
DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING
UNITED STATES INTERVENTION
IN_VIETNAM
A source advised on March 26, 1965, that the Friends
Peace Committee (FPC), 1520 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Planned a motorcade to end the war in Vietnam on March 27,
1965. This motorcade was scheduled to begin at 1515 Cherry
Street, Philadelphia, Pa., and would take place from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 pam.
A second source advised on March 27, 1965, that at
a “meeting of the Philadelphia Social Science Forum (PSSFC)
held March 26, 1965, at Diamond Hall, 249 South 9th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa., the master of ceremonies announced,
as suggested, to approximately 65 people attending that they
join an auto caravan Saturday, March 27, 1965, which was to
be from 11 a.m. t> 2 p.m., March 27, 1965. He said the
caravan would drive about the City of Philadelphia with signs
on the automobiles protesting U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
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advised on March 29, 1965, that
there were only two cars in the motorcade on March 27, 1965.
He said that GEORGE LAKEY of the FPC headed this demonstration.
GEORGE R, LAKEY
The first source advised on February 11, 1965,
that GEORGE R, LAKEY was Executive Secretary
of the Friends Peace Committee (FrC), Pniladel-
phia, Pa., as of February 1965, and that the
FPC is an adjunct of the Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers) and seeks peaceful and non-violent
solutions to racial and world tensions.
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