Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unknown Soldier and His Wife. The only evil of war left unmentioned in Peter Ustinov's three-hour verbal artillery barrage at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is the antiwar play. Despite a sprinkling of quips, Ustinov lays down a lethal set of pacifist platitudes that ultimately calls for an intellectual gas mask...
Organizers had billed it in advance as "the biggest antiwar demonstration in history," predicting that up to 50,000 demonstrators would assemble to jeer the President when he arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel in West Los Angeles. The morning of Johnson's speech before a $500-a-plate President's Club dinner, a three-page ad proclaimed: "As of this date, we 8,000 Democrats of Southern California are disassociating ourselves from you because of your conduct of the war in Viet...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Two Views: A Canadian-American Student Debate," a taped discussion of the war in Viet Nam as seen from opposite sides of the border. Although no formal sides were drawn initially, the U.S. students wind up taking an antiwar stand while the Canadians found themselves advocating U.S. involvement...
...when he visited Harvard in November. The impulse behind those students who mobbed the Secretary and physically halted his car was one of frustration and pique--frustration at the apparent reluctance of the Administration's high officials at that time to confront the more articulate spokesmen of the strident antiwar movement, and pique at the decision of McNamara's host, the Institute of Politics, to shield him from large numbers of students...
Despite an array of sympathetic doctors called to support Levy, including Dr. Benjamin Spock, the antiwar baby doctor, the military tribunal remained unconvinced. Ruled Presiding Law Officer Colonel Earl V. Brown: Levy was "not justified in disobeying the order on grounds that it was contrary to his medical judgments or ethical beliefs." With that, Levy's case collapsed. The jury deliberated nearly six hours before arriving at its verdict...