Title: National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records
Inclusive Dates: 1964-1967

Creator:

• National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam

Call Number: Mss 278; Micro 807

Quantity: 5.8 c.f. (14 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 374 photographs, 495 negatives, and 0.2 c.f. of posters

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Records of the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam (NCC), a Madison, Wisconsin-based organization which first coordinated the national opposition to the war in Vietnam. Two-thirds of the collection consists of exchanges with individuals and organizations from foreign countries and the United States who were active in the anti-war movement. The remainder of the collection pertains to the NCC's steering and standing committees, conferences sponsored by the NCC and other anti-war groups, reports of staff trips and meetings, and various projects such as the International Days of Protest. This section provides revealing, though by no means complete, information about internal operations and disputes. Also included are files of several conferences and staff meetings.

Note:

The newspaper clippings have been microfilmed by the Historical Society as Micro 807 and are available in the Microfilm Library. The remainder of the collection has been microfilmed by Primary Source Media as a part of its America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations series. The 13 positive reels of this microfilm edition are also available in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library (P09-653 to P09-665).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00278

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The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam (NCC) developed as the first in a series of short-lived, ad hoc attempts to guide the burgeoning anti-Vietnam war movement during the 1960s. On April 17, 1965, the Students for a Democratic Society sponsored the first large march on Washington against the war, but despite its success by the end of June, SDS had decided not to become overly committed to the anti-war movement. During the early months of 1965 many local anti-war groups were established around the country. Besides joining in the April 17 march, these committees held teach-ins, demonstrations, and occasionally affiliated with the older peace organizations such as SANE or Women Strike for Peace. At a Berkeley teach-in on May 21-22, 1965, Staughton Lynd proposed an Assembly of Unrepresented People to improve the tactics used in both the civil rights and peace movements. Participants in this teach-in also agreed to organize demonstrations for the following October that would be international in scope.

The Assembly of Unrepresented People in Washington, D.C., on August 6-9, 1965, brought together civil rights activists and peace proponents from throughout the country. There they shared their common experiences which included a frustrating lack of national direction and communication. A workshop, two hundred persons strong, on national coordination proposed the formation of the National Coordinating Committee. The assembly adopted this scheme on August 9; by that afternoon many of the NCC's leaders including its national secretary Frank Emspak, had been jailed for protesting against the war at the Capitol. This incident was indicative of the NCC's tone: militant, but non-violent.

The committee's headquarters were located in Madison, Wisconsin, with regional offices established in New York City and Washington, D.C. and three to six travelers around the country. The decision to establish headquarters in Madison exemplified the desire to cement the NCC's uneasy alliance of radical pacifists, moderate pacifists, Communists and Socialists, and reform Democrats. In Madison, which was centrally located and already well organized against the war, the local anti-war groups cooperated with little ideological bickering. The NCC's primary units of organization, however, consisted of approximately two to three hundred local anti-war groups. These included both ad-hoc committees and local chapters of various liberal and radical societies. Each group was theoretically represented on the NCC's steering committee; this committee determined policies and programs and served as the link between the local groups and the national staff. A standing committee composed of Lynd, David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, Jack Weinberg, Irving Beinin, Tom Shields, David Berkley, and Frank Emspak directed decision-making between meetings of the steering committee. The national staff, never numbering more than about a dozen individuals, possessed little power to initiate policies, but it was responsible for publishing the Peace and Freedom News.

The success of the October 15-16, 1965 First International Days of Protest increased the stakes involved in the struggle to control the swelling anti-war movement. Over one hundred thousand persons in fifty American cities participated in what was then the largest outpouring of anti-war sentiment. The November 28, 1965, March on Washington, sponsored by SANE, again displayed the grassroots sentiment against military involvement in Vietnam. The NCC held a national convention the week before this November demonstration (November 25-28) at which time a caucus demanding the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam established a newsletter, Bring the Troops Home Now. The caucus, composed largely of radical pacifists and SWP members, did not succeed in changing the basic policies and positions of the NCC due to the opposition of moderate pacifists, Communists, and reform-Democrats. The convention also mandated a Second International Days of Protest for March 25-26, 1966.

The Second International Day of Protest occurred in nearly a hundred cities and towns throughout the U.S. as well as in over thirty foreign countries. This very success led, however, to further debates within the NCC. Radical pacifists and SWP members desired to continue organizing demonstrations; liberals and Communist Party members preferred to turn to electoral politics; and new left radicals disliked the use of the NCC as a recruiting ground for older organizations and envisioned a new, radical organization which transcended both electoral politics and massive, non-ideological demonstrations.

During the spring of 1966, the continuing discussion over the NCC's direction remained unresolved. An effort to alleviate this problem at a conference was rejected by the local anti-war committees as too great a drain on their limited resources. The NCC staff did, however, attempt to coordinate the formation of community anti-war projects for the summer of 1966. Towards this goal, a conference was held at Antioch College on June 10-16, 1966, to discuss topics such as American imperialism, organizing tactics, and the role of China in the Southeast Asian conflict. While the NCC's summer organizing program achieved some moderate successes, the focus of the anti-war movement began to shift away from the NCC, which was being increasingly crippled by factionalism.

Another organization, the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee, arose to sponsor demonstrations on August 6-7, 1966. This New York-based group drew much of its support from radical pacifists, SWP members, and others associated with the caucus that established the Bring the Troops Home Now Newsletter. A series of conferences held during the summer and early fall of 1966 further eroded NCC's leadership. These meetings exacerbated the internal tensions within the NCC and witnessed the formation of another anti-war group--the Fall Mobilization Committee to direct the October and November 1966 mass demonstrations.

The foundation of the Fall Mobilization Committee as well as the electoral campaigns of peace candidates like Robert Scheer in California and Thomas Adams in Massachusetts drew staff, funding, and public support from the NCC. Although it assisted these efforts, it no longer coordinated them. During the winter of 1966-1967, the NCC redirected its focus towards state-wide organizing. Some staff members hoped to establish a grassroots, radical anti-war movement throughout Wisconsin to include clergymen, small farmers, blue-collar workers, professionals, and students; however, the attempt failed. Gradually the staff members either became involved in other Madison organizations or left the city.

The collection, with the exception of the clippings, which had been previously filmed by the Historical Society, was microfilmed by Primary Source Media (an imprint of Gale and a part of Cengage Learning) in 2008 as part of the series America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations. The microfilm vendor assigned new folder numbers from 1 to 152 and did not use a frame counter. It also prepared a name and subject index that is keyed to the new microfilm folder numbers. A copy of this guide can be found in the SHSW Library (Pam 09-1361). The container list which follows incorporates both the box and folder numbers for the paper collection and the new folder numbers assigned by the microfilm publisher. The new folder numbers are designated with the initials MF (for microfilm folder) at the end of each line in the container list. The following chart converts the new folder numbers to the appropriate reel numbers.

Reel	Microfilm Folder (MF) Range
1	1-17
2	18-28
3	29-45
4	46-57
5	58-74
6	75-85
7	86-97
8	98-107
9	108-118
10	119-127
11	128-135
12	136-144
13	145-152

The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records are divided into three series: INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS, CORRESPONDENCE, and CLIPPINGS.

The INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS contain correspondence, fragmentary financial records, minutes, notes, proposals, and reports which pertain to the NCC's steering and standing committees, conferences sponsored by the NCC and other anti-war groups, reports of staff trips and meetings, and various projects such as the International Days of Protest. This section of the records provides revealing, but by no means complete, information about the NCC's operations and its internal disputes. The files of several conferences and staff meetings include summarized minutes, correspondence, planning material, and some lists of participants. Publications include rough drafts of articles, as well as drafts of several issues of Peace and Freedom News. Printed copies of the newsletter are available in the State Historical Society Library. There are also NCC leaflets, press releases, and some publications of the Research and Information Committee.

CORRESPONDENCE is divided into three sections: 1) foreign country files, with correspondence from both individuals and organizations arranged by nation and chronologically thereunder except for Canada, which is subdivided by city; 2) alphabetical files, from individuals in the United States, which are arranged by the first two letters of the correspondent's surname; and 3) locality files, from various anti-war groups throughout the United States arranged alphabetically by state, city, and organization. The vast majority of this correspondence concerns the national and international anti-war movement, though some touches on related topics such as civil rights, political elections, and disputes between various leftist and anti-war groups. A list of prominent correspondents is below.

CLIPPINGS, which were microfilmed by the Historical Society, predominantly document local involvement in the International Days of Protest. This material does not appear on the publication issued by Primary Source Media.

List of Prominent Correspondents

• Jane Adams, SDS National Secretary, in Correspondence: Locality
• Bettina Aptheker, anti-war activist, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Irving Beinin, NCC Standing Committee, in Correspondence: Locality
• Paul Booth, SDS Vice-President, in Correspondence: Locality
• Carl Braden, Southern Conference Educational Fund, in Intra-Organizational Records and in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Harry Bridges, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Dena Clamage, SDS Vietnam Report, Detroit Committee to End the War, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Vicki Cooper, NCC staff and Pittsburgh Committee to End the War, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Carl Davidson, SDS, Vice-President, in Correspondence: Locality
• David Dellinger, radical pacifist, Liberation News, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Ernest De Maio, President, United Electrical Workers District Council 11, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Danilo Dolci, Italian social reformer, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Frank Donner, lawyer for the NCC, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Frank Emspak, Chairman of the NCC, in Intra-Organizational Records and in Correspondence: Alphabetical, Foreign, and Locality
• Abraham Feinberg, anti-war activist, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• A. J. Fitzgerald, President of the United Electrical Workers, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Laura Foner, NCC staff, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Sanford Gottlieb, Political Action Director, SANE, in Correspondence: Locality
• Felix Greene, author and filmmaker, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Ernest Gruening, US Senator, D-Alaska, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• William Higgs, NCC staff, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Abbott Hoffman, Worcester Committee to End the War, anti-war activist, in Correspondence: Locality
• C.S. Jackson, President of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Arnold Johnson, Public Relations Director, Communist Party, in Correspondence: Locality
• Jeff Jones, NCC staff, SDS leader, Intra-Organizational Records, Correspondence: Locality
• Robert Kastenmeier, US Representative, D-Wisconsin, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Amy Kesselman, NCC staff, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Arthur Kinoy, lawyer for the NCC, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Michael Klare, NCC staff, in Intra-Organizational Records
• William Kunstler, lawyer for the NCC, anti-war activist, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Sidney Lens, Fall Mobilization Committee, anti-war activist, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Joan Levenson, NCC staff, Intra-Organizational Records
• Staughton Lynd, NCC standing committee, in Intra-Organizational Records, Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Floyd McKissick, National Director of the Congress for Racial Equality, in Correspondence: Locality
• Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator, D-Oregon, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• A. J. Muste, radical pacifist, Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee, in Intra-Organizational Records and in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Sidney Peck, anti-war activist, Fall Mobilization Committee, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Ann Peery, NCC staff, Intra-Organizational Records, in Correspondence: Locality
• Jerry Rubin, Vietnam Day Committee, Youth International Party, in Correspondence: Locality
• Sheila Ryan, NCC staff, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Adam Schesch, NCC staff, in Intra-Organizational Records
• Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, anti-war activist, in Intra-Organizational Records and in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• I. F. Stone, journalist, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Paul Sweezey, editor The Monthly Review, in Correspondence: Alphabetical
• Walter Tillow, NCC staff, Intra-Organizational Records Carl Wittman, SDS organizer, in Correspondence: Locality
• Donovan Workman, Chairman, Northwest Regional Committee to End the War, in Correspondence: Locality

Acquisition Information

Presented by Frank Emspak, Joan Levenson Scott, and Adam Schesch, Madison, Wisconsin, January 17 and July 6, 1967. Accession Number: M67-017, M67-192

Processing Information

Processed by Michael Kohl, May 1974, and Carolyn Mattern, March 1980. Prepared for microfilming, 2008.

Mss 278	Series: Intra-Organizational Records
	Subseries: Administration
	Steering Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	General papers, 1965-1966 (Microfilm Folder (MF) 1) Note: See Scope and Content Note for reel number.
Box   1 Folder   2	1965 September 18-20, Ann Arbor (MF 2)
	Standing Committee
Box   1 Folder   3	1966 January 8-9, Milwaukee (MF 3)
Box   1 Folder   4	Poll on proposed , 1966 April (MF 4)
	Conferences and meetings
Box   1 Folder   5	1965 August 6-9, Assembly of Unrepresented People (MF 5)
	1965 November 25-28, NCC National Conference
Box   1 Folder   6	Correspondence (MF 6)
Box   1 Folder   7	Planning documents and agendas (MF 7)
Box   1 Folder   8	Constitutional material (MF 8)
Box   1 Folder   9	Position papers and handouts (MF 9)
Box   1 Folder   10	1966 January 24-26, Toronto (MF 10)
Box   1 Folder   11	1966 February 12-18, unidentified meeting (MF 11)
	1966 June 10-16, Training session for summer projects, Antioch
Box   1 Folder   12	Correspondence (MF 12)
Box   1 Folder   13	Planning materials (MF 13)
Box   1 Folder   14	Registration questionnaires (MF 14)
Box   1 Folder   15	1966 July 22, Cleveland (MF 15)
Box   1 Folder   16	1966 July 30-31, National Conference on Community Peace Groups, Pittsburgh (MF 16)
Box   1 Folder   17	1966 September 9, NCC Fall planning, Toledo (MF 17)
Box   1 Folder   18	1966 September 10-11, National Leadership Conference, Cleveland (MF 18)
Box   2 Folder   1	1966 September 30-October 2, Southern Organizers' Conference on Vietnam (MF 19)
Box   2 Folder   2	1966 November 26, November 5-8 evaluation meeting, Cleveland (MF 20)
Box   2 Folder   3	1967 April 16, Draft conference, New York (MF 21)
Box   2 Folder   4	Unidentified meetings (MF 22)
	Subseries: Staff	⇧
	Correspondence, 1966
Box   2 Folder   5	Cooper, Vicki; Laura Foner, Jeff Jones, Bill Higgs, and Amy Kesselman (MF 23)
Box   2 Folder   6	Klare, Michael, Joan Levenson, and Ann Perry (MF 24)
Box   2 Folder   7	Ryan, Shelia, Adams Schesch, and Walt Tillow (MF 25)
Box   2 Folder   8-9	Meeting minutes, 1966-1967 (MF 26-27)
Box   2 Folder   10	Reports and notes, 1966, undated (MF 28)
Box   2 Folder   11	Traveling reports, 1966, undated (MF 29)
Box   2 Folder   12	Financial records, 1966 (MF 30)
	Publications
Box   2 Folder   13	Leaflets, 1965-1966 (MF 31)
Box   2 Folder   14	Leaflets of the Research and Information Committee, 1966 (MF 32)
	Peace and Freedom News
Box   3 Folder   1	Draft articles, 1966 (MF 33)
Box   3 Folder   2	Draft issues, 1, 3, 5-9, 28, 30, 31 (MF 34-35)
Box   3 Folder   3	Local news articles and reports, undated (MF 36)
Box   3 Folder   4	Mailing lists, undated (MF 37)
Box   3 Folder   5	Production matters, 1966 (MF 38)
Box   3 Folder   6	Press releases and drafts, 1966 (MF 39)
	Projects
Box   3 Folder   7	Demonstrations, 1966 (MF 40)
Box   3 Folder   8	Films, 1966 (MF 41)
Box   4 Folder   1	1st International Days of Protest, 1965 October 15-16 (MF 42)
Box   4 Folder   2	2nd International Days of Protest, 1966 March 25-26 (MF 43)
Box   4 Folder   3	Legal aid, 1965-1966 (MF 44)
Box   4 Folder   4	Peace candidates, 1966 (MF 45)
Box   4 Folder   5	Speakers, 1965-1966 (MF 46)
Box   4 Folder   6	Summer projects, 1966 (MF 47)
Box   4 Folder   7	Wisconsin State Organizing Projects, 1967 (MF 48)
Box   4 Folder   8	Madison, 1967 (MF 49)
Box   4 Folder   9	Miscellany, Hungarian Propaganda regarding American Intelligence activities, undated (MF 50)
	Series: Correspondence	⇧
	Subseries: Foreign Countries, 1965-1967
Box   4 Folder   10	File cards on foreign contacts, undated (MF 51)
Box   4 Folder   11	Albania, Australia (MF 52)
	Austria
Box   4 Folder   12	General, 1965-1966 (MF 53)
Box   5 Folder   1	World Council of Peace, presidential meeting, 1966 (MF 54)
Box   5 Folder   2	Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria (MF 55)
Box   5 Folder   3-4	Canada, 1965-1966 (MF 56-57)
Box   5 Folder   5	Chile, China, Cyprus (MF 58)
Box   5 Folder   6	Cuba, Czechoslovakia (MF 59)
Box   5 Folder   7	Denmark, Egypt, Finland (MF 60)
Box   5 Folder   8	France, 1965-1967 (MF 61)
Box   5 Folder   9	Germany, 1966 (MF 62)
Box   5 Folder   10	Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary (MF 63)
Box   5 Folder   11	India, Ireland, Israel (MF 64)
Box   5 Folder   12	Italy, 1964-1967 (MF 65)
Box   5 Folder   13	Japan, Korea, Malagasy Republic, Mexico (MF 66)
Box   5 Folder   14	Netherlands, 1966 (MF 67)
Box   6 Folder   1	New Zealand, Peru, Philippines (MF 68)
Box   6 Folder   2	Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania (MF 69)
Box   6 Folder   3	United Kingdom (MF 70)
Box   6 Folder   4	USSR, Uruguay, Vietnam (MF 71)
	Subseries: Personal Names, 1965-1966	⇧
Box   6 Folder   5-12	A-D (MF 72-79)
Box   7 Folder   1-12	E-L (MF 80-91)
Box   8 Folder   1-11	M-S (MF 92-102)
Box   9 Folder   1-4	T-Z (MF 103-106)
	Subseries: United States Locality File, 1965-1967	⇧
Box   9 Folder   5	Midwest, New England, Northwest, and Southwest regions (MF 107)
Box   9 Folder   6	Arizona, Arkansas (MF 108)
	California
Box   9 Folder   7-11	Alhambra-San Francisco (MF 109-113)
Box   10 Folder   1	San Jose-Venice (MF 114)
Box   10 Folder   2	Colorado (MF 115)
Box   10 Folder   3	Connecticut (MF 116)
Box   10 Folder   4	Delaware (MF 117)
Box   10 Folder   4-5	District of Columbia (MF 117 (continued)-118)
Box   10 Folder   5	Florida (MF 118)
Box   10 Folder   6	Georgia, Hawaii (MF 119)
Box   10 Folder   7-8	Illinois (MF 120-121)
Box   10 Folder   9	Indiana (MF 122)
Box   11 Folder   1	Iowa (MF 123)
Box   11 Folder   2-3	Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland (MF 124-125)
Box   11 Folder   4	Massachusetts (MF 126)
Box   11 Folder   5-6	Michigan, Minnesota (MF 127-128)
Box   11 Folder   7	Mississippi, Missouri, Montana (MF 129)
Box   11 Folder   8	Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire (MF 130)
Box   11 Folder   9	New Jersey, New Mexico (MF 131)
	New York
Box   12 Folder   1	Albany-New Rochelle (MF 132)
Box   12 Folder   2-8	New York City (MF 133-139)
Box   13 Folder   1-2	Nyack-Yonkers (MF 140-141)
Box   13 Folder   3	North Carolina, North Dakota (MF 142)
	Ohio, 1965-1966
Box   13 Folder   3	Athens-Columbus (MF 142 (continued))
Box   13 Folder   4	Granville-Youngstown (MF 143)
Box   13 Folder   5	Oklahoma, Oregon (MF 144)
Box   13 Folder   6-7	Pennsylvania (MF 145-146)
Box   13 Folder   8	Rhode Island, Tennessee (MF 147)
Box   13 Folder   9	Texas (MF 148)
Box   13 Folder   10	Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington (MF 149)
Box   14 Folder   1	West Virginia (MF 150)
Box   14 Folder   2	Wisconsin, Wyoming (MF 151)
Box   14 Folder   3	Unidentified correspondence, 1965-1966 (MF 152)
Micro 807	Series: Clippings	⇧
Reel   1	1965-1966 Scope and Content Note: Predominantly documents local involvement in the International Days of Protest.

	Local Anti-War Groups (about 200-300) LED TO
	Steering Committee (about 70 delegates) LED TO
	Standing Committee (8 members) LED TO
	National Staff, Madison, WI (about 10 people) LED TO
Regional Office, Washington, D.C. (1-3 people)	Regional Travelers (3-6 people)	Regional Office, New York City (1-3 people)

Note

Names with asterisks were also on the NCC Standing Committee; where known, the member's organization is listed after the name.

• Donna Allen, Women Strike for Peace, Washington, D.C. Chapter
• Stanley Aronowitz, Chairman of the Committee for Miners
• *Irving Beinin, Lower East Side Mobilization for Peace
• Linda Belisle, Ann Arbor Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• *David Berkley, Ithaca Committee to End the War in Vietnam (alternate for Carl Henderson)
• Danny Blouin, Syracuse Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Edy Bobrick, Austin Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Suzanne Bodenheimer, MIT Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Paul Booth, Students for a Democratic Society
• Patrick Cawood, Washington, D.C. Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Dennis Ciesielski, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student-Faculty Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Vicki Cooper, Pittsburgh Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• *David Dellinger, Liberation
• Michael Eisenscher, W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America-Milwaukee
• *Frank Emspak, Chairman of the NCC
• Liz Fusco
• David Gilbert, New York Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Columbia University Committee
• Anthony Gonowitz, New York Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Jeffrey Gordon, Students for a Democratic Society
• Sanford Gottlieb, Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy
• Edward Greer, Yale-New Haven Committee for Peace in Vietnam
• Diedre Griswald, Youth Against War and Fascism
• Joe Gross, Oberlin Vietnam Ad-Hoc Committee
• John Hawksley, Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Robert Heisler, New York Du Bois Club
• Carl Henderson, Ithaca Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Lon Hill
• Michael Itkin, Brotherhood of the Love of Christ
• Doug Jenness, Young Socialist Alliance
• Arnold Johnson, Communist Party, USA
• Walter Lippman, Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Michael Locker, Ann Arbor Student-Faculty Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• *Staughton Lynd
• Brad Lyttle, New England Committee for Non-violent Action
• Robin Maisel, Philadelphia Area Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Marilyn McNabb, Earlham College Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• David McReynolds, War Resister's League
• William Miller, New Brunswick Community Action Project (ERAP)
• Sherry Myers, Southern Student Organizing Committee
• John Owen, Kenosha-Racine Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Robert Parris, Congress of Racial Equality
• Anne Peery, Dayton Area Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Dennis Roseman, Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam
• *Jerry Rubin, Vietnam Day Committee
• Marc Sapir, Stanford Committee for Peace in Vietnam
• Susan Schwartz, New York Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Thomas Schwetzer or Jens Jensen, Cambridge-Boston Citizens Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Larry Seigle, Minnesota Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Earl Silbar, Chicago Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Neil Scheneberger or Verne Chapman, Lancaster Committee for a Negotiated Peace in Vietnam
• Nadya Spassenko, Orange County Emergency Committee (New York)
• Robert Tenney, American Friends Service Committee
• Rachel Towne, Cleveland Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Larry Wadleigh, Reed College Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Eric Weinberger, New York City Committee on Non-violent Action
• Eli Zaretsky, New York Committee to End the War in Vietnam