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Today. I called my State Senator, Francis X. McCann, to urge that he vote for the Shea Bill. After some double-talk about the constitutionality of the measure (the bill is, of course, a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the Vietnam war), Senator McCann said he was going to vote against...
When I pointed out that there were probably three or four hundred graduate students in my ward alone, that most could be expected to feel as I do about the Shea Bill, and that we would remember this when we next got inside a voting booth, Senator McCann was singularly unperturbed. He bad been in this business sixteen years, he said, and the "so-called Harvard group" had never made much difference in his political career...
...Senator McCann, I have the feeling, knows whereof he speaks. Something has gone wrong here...
...meantime, the Shea Bill is yet to be voted on, and you might let Senator McCann know that you exist His number at the State House is 727-2755; if you can't get him there, call the Senate Lobby, 727-2455, and they'll leave your name and number for him to call back. Come together, right...
...McCann said he is particularly interested in the Black Panther movement. The Catholics, while barricading their section against police attack, showed movies of the Panthers, which received tremendous attention. "All the young lads identified with the Panthers," he said...