(Continued from Simon Fraser) At a distance, San Francisco in late ‘68 still glowed from the “Summer of Love” festival the previous year. But that glow was like the light that continues to travel in space after its source burns out. My friend in San Francisco — the noted Marxist economist James O’Connor — then …
(Continued from Viet-Report) At Brandeis that fall (1966) a student dive-bombed and crashed a light airplane into the center of campus, killing himself and his female passenger. Rumors swirled that it was a love pact, a Romeo-and-Juliet affair, but in the background there was the Vietnam draft. With the massive escalation of the ground war, …
(Continued from Mississippi Winter 1964-65) We left Jackson in April 1965. My molars were rotting away. A dentist in Pittsburgh PA who was a steadfast supporter of the civil rights movement offered to work on my teeth for free. Getting my molars fixed for free, with novocaine, felt like advanced socialism, by contrast to the Cuban kind, …
(Continued from Cuba 1963) In the summer of 1964 the civil rights movement launched a major campaign, Freedom Summer, to bring voter registration and other basic civil rights to the Deep South, centering on Mississippi. Viki and I spent the summer in New York, working. I had a summer job with a branch of the …
1208 Trinity Jackson, Miss Feb. 19, 1965 Dear Friends, We enclose this time a flyer which we wrote for distribution to Jackson students, but which we thought you would find interesting. Last Tuesday we travelled to Issaquena county to get first-hand information — the press has blacked it out completely — and came away very …
