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...types, has created the public impression that these critics are obstructionists, that they are against the library and, by implication, against President Kennedy himself. The corporation, refusing to address itself to the museum issue, has given Cambridge citizens a clear choice: either you are a friend of the JFK memorial or you are one of its enemies; you have to be for it or against it. This is a devisive and deceptive tactic...
...spring of '64 saw 200 students sit in at the Federal Building in Boston, demanding federal protection for civil-rights marchers in Alabama, the first of many sit-ins at the JFK building. It saw 30,000 people rally on the Boston Common to support the marchers, the first of many monster rallies there. It saw 500 students, undeterred by a Lampoon counter-demonstration, ride SDS's buses to the first of many marches on Washington. It saw the first of many Harvard teach-ins on Vietnam, an all-night marathon that had to be moved to Sanders Theater...
...Combat Zone must be replaced by something, why not by the Kennedy Library? Judging by the popularity of other Presidential Libraries, a JFK Memorial would attract tourists enough to revitalize downtown Boston. It seems clear that citizens of Cambridge don't want these tourists...
Also the proponents of the JFK memorial speak of carrying out his dream to bring politics and academia closer together. What could further this end more than locating the school of politics in Park Square, adjacent to both the State House and Boston City Hall? Joseph Schirmer Ward...
...Harvard Administration and the Patrolmen's Association reached a tentative agreement in a five-month contract dispute Wednesday after a ten-hour negotiating session at the JFK Federal Building...