UC/BERKELEY 1965 NINE ITEM ARCHIVE OF ANTI VIETNAM WAR NEWSPAPERS AND HAND-OUTS.
Item Description
This group of items was preserved by the same person who preserved the items in the previous lot #551 related to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Items is this group are mostly 8.5 x 11" with exception of second item at 5.5 x 8.5" and the Vol. 1 No. 3 Vietnam Day Committee News (paper) is 11.5 x 16". Most items have some degree of age tone. Condition is VG on a few with most VF to Exc. The items span February 1965 through August 1965. Included are 1st and 3rd issues of newspaper Vietnam Day Committee News and fliers for five different protest events among them a "picket" protest against LBJ ( with upside down photo related to a Norman Mailer speech) upon occasion of United Nations 20th anniversary in San Francisco and one to "STOP THE TROOP TRAIN" at the Berkeley Santa Fe Station. See expanded description on-line.
In chronological order item (1) is c. February, 1965. Two-side blue paper with photo of Vietnamese woman and baby on one side plus title ( and text) "An Appeal To The Conscience Of America For Peace With Honor In Vietnam". Opposite side names Committee for Nonviolent Action-West with text of "Declaration of Conscience" followed by names of signors including: Rev. Dan and Phil Berrigen, David Dellinger, Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( poet), Paul Goodman, Paul Jacobs, Paul Krassner, A. J Muste, A. Philip Randolph and 19 others. Exc. (2) is 5.5 x 8.5" yellow sheet issued for Berkeley campus rally with text at top "SLATE, Berkeley Campus Women for Peace & Committee for Nonviolent Action-West sponsor a noon rally Friday, February 19 on the steps of Sproul Hall / Declaration of Conscience against Vietnam War / Speakers: Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, Roy Kepler, Mark Morris". Text states following the rally there will be a walk to the Oakland Army Terminal and Naval Supply Depot with leafleting along the way and possibly a sit-down. NM. (3) sheet mimeographed in green issued for next day Feb. 20, 1965 with title "Protest The War In Vietnam" and announcement of "Demonstration And Rally In San Francisco On Saturday Feb. 20". Listed are 4 "FACT" (s) with credit at bottom "pub. By Berkeley May 2nd Movement- 2056 Emerson" and small text "IWW I. U. 450" an apparent printer's mark. ( 2 light folds, VF). (3) moderately tanned with small edge nicks upper left two-sided sheet titled "Vietnam Days May 21 & May 22 Community Meeting". Text describes Berkeley on campus event lasting 33 hours "WITH THE ENTIRE WEST COAST INVITED". "Program" lists hour by hour events and speakers beginning "Friday Noon" with "Phil Ochs, topical singer from New York". Highlights of following events include: I.F. Stone, Willie Brown, Barbara Dane (folksinger), Edward Keating (Ramparts magazine editor), Dr. Benjamin Spock, Senator Gruening, Kenneth Rexroth (poet/critic), at "Friday Midnight" "Mario Savio, F.S. M. Leader", San Francisco Mime Troupe, Norman Thomas, "Paul Potter, President S.D.S", The Committee, Paul Krassner, Staughton Lynd (Yale prof.) Tape from Bertram Russell, Dave Dellinger, Dick Gregory, and near conclusion "Norman Mailer, author speaking on President Johnson". From a month later (4) is Vol. 1. No. 1 of Vietnam Day Committee News dated June 22-30, 1965. Front left story titled "Lyndon Johnson Upside Down" with intro text about Mailer climaxing a Vietnam Day speech last month "with a suggestion aimed at the ego of our President" followed by text of Mailer's talk's conclusion which ends with "Vietnam. Hot Damn" You Lyndon Johnson will see those pictures everywhere-upside down. Four inches high and forty feet high. You Lyndon Baines Johnson, are going to be coming up for air, everywhere upside down. Everywhere, upside down. Upside down. (Applause)". Article also details "Massive Demonstration Planned For LBJ" ( in SF when he comes for UN ceremony). Editor of paper is Si Lowinsky, with two managing editors named Bill Robbins and Stella Levy. Paper is tanned with pair of very old fold creases. VG. Next (5) is blue two-sided hand out to promote "Protest Hypocrisy/ picket Johnson" naming Viet Nam Day Committee as organizer. Reverse gives rally and demonstration details with 1 P. M. rally including Joan Baez, Bob Parris ( a SNCC leader) and James Shabazz, a close associate of Malcolm X. (Tiny corner crease/stain, VF). Next (6) is VDC News, now in larger format, Vol. 1, No. 3 for August, 1965. Editor is now Philip Sugar. Lead story sub-head is "Story Of The Troop Trains". 4 pages, tanned but clean and VF, many articles. Next is (7) a two sided flier with huge type "STOP the TROOP TRAIN" plus details for Thurs. April 12, 1965 protest at Santa Fe Station. One side with photo is titled "Troop Train Picket No. 4 / What Will Happen This Time?" Sheet lightly tanned with four old and now very flat fold lines. Some very slight extreme margin tan spots. Fine. (8) is one sided sheet stapled to two-sided sheet. Front details a March to office of Berkeley area Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan to "Come To Talk about The War, Jobs, Discrimination". Many sponsoring groups are named including SDS. SNCC, & DuBois Club. Second sheet has heavy tanning on top 2" and margin with tiny flakes off top edge. This is "Schedule of Events" with 9 A.M. start "CALL: Opening of the Congress of Unrepresented People". The back of sheet has extensive list detailing the "Revised Program of Discussion Groups". VG. Last c. 1965 item is 8.5 x 13" two-sided sheet in favor of the war. One side shows atrocity photos from 1960 with title "Violations of the Geneva Agreements By The Viet-Minh Communists". Other side reprints 1962 excerpt from International Control Commission report about "Aggression From The North". Issuer is named as "Cal Conservatives For Political Action" with Berkeley POB. (Lightly tanned, 1" tear at top, corner nick, overall Fine). Last as a "come along" is 5.5 x 8.5" photocopied ( as originally produced) booklet with 24 pages of poems and cover title "Anti-Nuclear Poems". This has intro page with text by Honor Johnson, June, 1982 Palo Alto, Ca. Tanned cover with VF contents. This group is an important archive from the early months of the anti-Vietnam War movement which came to dominate the latter half of the 1960s decade and into the early 1970s.
