DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM.
Agency: CIA
Originator: FBI
Document date: 01/19/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES

INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM

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The Commuhist Party and other organizations are

continuing their efforts to force the United States to

change its present policy toward Vietnam. There is set

forth below a sunmary, of current and planned future activity

through which

they hope to accomplish this end.

Proposed Demonstration Against the Vice President

A leafiet has been distributed in New York announ

cing ar ants-Vietnam demonstration during the "Billionaires

New York City, at 7

Diamond Ball" which is to be held at th 1968. Motel,

Among the

sponsors of the demonstration' are the following: apule SEep. 4

Against Har and Fascism the youth affiliate of the Workers

party,

& pro-Chinese consunist group; United States

Committee to Aid the Natignal Liberation Front,

• a group

which openly supports the Governmont of North Vietnary and:

opposes Unsted States policy in Vietnam, Student Howviolent

Coordinating Committee, a militant-Negro organizatzon;

Movimiento Pro-Independencio De Puerto Rico a movenent for

the independence of Puerto Rico, and. Organization for

Revolutionary Action a group which has described itself

dedicated to violence during demonstrations. According.

as

i to

the leaf/let, Vice President Humphrey, Governor Nelson

Rockefeller and Senator John Sherman Cooper are scheduled

to attend the Ball which is :to benefit

the institute of

International Education.

Demonstrations Against Campus Recruitment

approximately 15 demonstrators

surrounded

ing booth located on the Circle Campus of the University of

Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, from 10 a.m. to 2:40 p.M.

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The Marine Corps recruiters, in the interest of

public safety, did not man the booth butawaited University

officials' attempts to disperse the demonstrators.

The

demonstrators, however, ignored direct orders from school

officials to disperse

and continued the demonstration.

Recruiters were never able to occupy the booth throughout

the day.

Joe

Portonya member of the Chicago Area Draft

Resisters a groto which is in opposition to the Selective

servace, was one of the leaders of the demonstration.

Robert Lugas, the Chairman of the Chicago Chapter, Congress

of Racial Equality, a civil rights organization, spoke to

the demonstrators extolling black student power. During his

talk, approximately 200 curious students congregated in the

area.

The Chicago Police Department had representatives

on the scene, butwould not arrest demonstrators without specific

- complaint from University officials.

No complaint was issued

since school officials feared a riot would occur if arrests

were made. The students dispersed at approximately 2:45 p.m.

Demonstrations in Opposition to the Selective Service:

An article appearing in the January 13, 1968, issue

of "People's World," a west coast conmunist newspaper, stated

that Davis Harris,

upon reporting to the Oakland Induction

Center, Oakland,

California, on January 17, 1968, and refusing

induction, would be met with a large supporting demonstration

planned by the Committee for Draft Resistance, a group which

is in opposition to Selective Serxice laws.

On January 17,

1968, at 6:30 a.m., a demonstration began at the Oakland

Induction Center, Oakland, California.

individuals participated.

During the

demonstratately 2ga

former student body president of Stanford

Palo Alto, California, and a leader of The

Resístance, a national organization devoted to draft oppo-

sition, arrived on a bus with other inductees.

While other

inductees entered the center, Harris did not and became the

center of attention of those participating in the demonstration.

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Harris spoke for approximately ten minutes

stating that today was the culmination of a whole year

in which his opposition to the draft had been known to

his draft board. He expressed his refusal to be inducted

are on to no rau von contes

and urged those present to consider him as an example and

to refuse to cooperate with the draft. He asked people

not to enter the induction center and stated the only way

to stop the war in Vietnam would be to oppose the Govern-

ment's attempt to draft persons into the armed services.

On January 17, 1968, The Resistance conducted a

demonstration®

at the Armed Forces Induction Station, 1031

South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, and approximately

100 individuals participated.

During the demonstration,

David Boldue appeared at the induction station for induction,

but refusad to be processed.

On January 17, 1968, 50 Individuals demonstrated

at the main gate,

United States Armed Forces Induction

Station, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, Neworke

This demonstra

tion was held in support of Peter

Clair who has refused

induction.

On January 16, 1968, approximately 150 individuals

demonstrated in front of the Federal Building, Pittsburgh,

support anta, in protest of the Selective Service and ir

of Theodore Marsh who was refusing to be inducted

into the nil tary sevice at the Federal Building that date.

Forty-four individuals demonstrated at the

entrance to the Old Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

on January 15, 1968, to protest the scheduled induction into

the armed forces of Francis-Robert Shor),

During the demon-

stration, Shor entered the induction station located in the

Building, but after reporting as ordered,

turned in a

setting forth the basis for his refusal to continue

the process procedure.

He was thereafter.escorted from the

Building by induction center personnel.

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Other Demonstrations

On January 16, 1968, three individuals attempted

to stop a munitions truck on

the county road immediately

in front of the Port Chicago gate of the United States Naval

Weapons Station, Concord, California. A sheriff's deputy

went into the base to obtain additional help to effect the

arrest of these three individuals.. While he was on the base,

several other individuals, who had apparently been delayed by

the blocking of the truck, proceeded to hit the three

individuals, stopping the truck. Subsequently, the three

who had blocked the truck were

arrested for blocking a

public highway and causing public nuisance.

-On January 15, 1968, a demonstration sponsored by

the Youth Against Va

and Fascism,

consisting of approxi-

mately 30 individuals, was held,at Times"Square, New York,

New York.

This demonstration was

Private Andrew Stapr.

staged in support of

During the demonstration, Deirdre Griswold Stapp,

the wife od, way ta stationed terent in celera, that

received a court martial because of his stand against-the

Vietnam war.

She stated

that the Youth Against War and

Fascism favored the establishment of a union for GIs

to end

alleged injustices in the Army.

At a news conference held in New York Cityron

January-12, 1963, under the sponsorship of the (Cleggy and

Layman Concerved About Vietnam, a group in opposition to

United States policy in Vietnam, CDr. Martin

Luther King, Jros

announced a demonstration to be held in Washington, D. C.,

on February 5-6, 1968.

He said that this demonstration would .

be held to protest the war in Vietnam and that, while other

protesters

would not be turned away, the demonstration would

be held primarily for church affiliated groups.

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