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...hatred and racism. There are still lynchings in this county. Within the past two years, a black man has been castrated, a white woman has shot a black male child, and a white doctor who is a member of the KKK has plotted to have the county's black VISTA director assassinated. In Selma (50 miles from here) only a week before I got here, a policeman beat a black man to death on the street...
...hotels and motels, theatres, and the local doctor's office. The only doctor near Annie Manie is a Klan member. In the waiting room at his office there are separate areas for blacks and whites. This same man is the one who plotted to shoot the county's black VISTA director two years...
...Would-be C.O.s can request their draft boards to classify then as I-0 (which exempts them from military duty but requires them to serve in mental hospitals, in VISTA or in some other service programs), or as 1-A-0's (they don uniforms but do not bear arms. This year the Army has trained as many as 3,000 1-A-0's, mostly as medics...
...served as a White House assistant to President Kennedy and helped organize the Peace Corps. He also helped to set up VISTA. He served as chief aide to New Jersey's Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. In 1968, while teaching at Saint Paul's in New Hampshire, he became a leader in the McCarthy for President drive there. He served on the Platform Committee of the Democratic National Convention in 1968, where he fought for the minority peace plank on Vietnam. Last year, he attended Harvard School of Education...
Many of G.E.'s ideas might serve to arouse crucial public sympathy for antipoverty efforts. But the poor might be at least bemused by some of the suggestions being considered. Among them: cheering sections at nationally televised football games, with cards spelling out JOIN VISTA; streamers towed by airplanes over "every major beach in America" on Labor Day and Memorial Day, along with skydivers and skywriters to attract the press; VISTA swizzle sticks aboard airliners; a pavilion at Disneyland; and a national advisory board made up of such figures as Paul Newman, Elliott Gould, O.J. Simpson, Billy Graham...