Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After contacting the FBI, Revzin met with Agent P. Duncan, who produced an extensive file which included Revzin's dorm address, home address, roommates' names and a Daily article from last spring, mentioning him as a participant in an anti-war demonstration...
...fine for people at an academic institution to explain theories, such as communism," Duncan told Revzin, "but when they advocate picking up the gun, that's something else...
...Duncan asked Revzin whether the RU advocates "picking up the gun" against the government. Revzin said he thought it probably did. After much more extensive questioning- ranging from Revzin's driver's license number to his precise relation to RU- Duncan produced a handwritten statement which he asked Revzin to sign...
Photographer David Douglas Duncan, whose War Without Heroes was published last week (Harper & Row; 252 pages; $14.95), has managed to recapture the war in all its grisly tedium. Looking deceptively like a cocktail-table art book, Duncan's gloom-shrouded pictures of American fighting men are packed more with fatigue than fight. There are no heroic actions; men shave, take muddy baths, clean up after shellbursts, write letters, stare vacantly at absolutely nothing while waiting for the next pointless action. The photographs have the stink of death, the feel of futility and, on any cocktail table, far surpass alcohol...
...Duncan, who was with the Marines in World War II and later covered the Korean War for LIFE, says in his foreword: "I wanted to show what war does to a man . . . I wanted to tell a story of war, as war has always been for men. Only their weapons, the terrain, the causes have changed." Duncan is not sure about just what cause the U.S. is pursuing in Viet Nam, but he considers the conflict to be "the greatest American tragedy since the Civil War." He salutes the individual American fighting men for their courage, generosity, simplicity of language...