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  Al Hubbard (VVAW) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Hubbard was registered with the VA with a service-connected disability rating of 60 per cent.
Hubbard did not testify at the Winter Soldier Investigation, but because he had exaggerated his rank in news media interviews claiming to have been in the officer rank, rather than enlisted rank, his lie is sometimes raised to cast doubt on the credibility of the Winter Soldier Investigation.
Al Hubbard was on similar covert missions, flying in a supply plane to the French when they were fighting the Viet Minh in the fifties.
education.music.us /A/Al-Hubbard-(VVAW).htm   (673 words)

  
 John Kerry for President??? What America should Know.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, who is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ and former Black Panther, soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee.
Hubbard is introduced as a former Air Force captain who had spent two years in Vietnam and was wounded in action, this would later be proven as a lie.
They discuss how best to handle Al Hubbard's planned trip to Hanoi, and decide that the American flag should be removed from any VVAW office that has one, because the flag was considered offensive.
home.earthlink.net /~jnjb7   (3675 words)

  
 William Overend on Vietnam Veterans against the War on National Review Online
Al Hubbard is the executive director of the Vietnam Veterans against the War.
Hubbard had been introduced on that show by Lawrence E. Spivak as a former captain who had spent two years in Vietnam, and who had been decorated and injured in the process.
Al Hubbard had the opportunity to defend himself.
www.nationalreview.com /flashback/overend200404230901.asp   (1541 words)

  
 John Kerry - Unfit for Command - Meeting With The Enemy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hubbard, one of the VVAW’s most controversial leaders, announced to the group that he had just come from Paris, where he had met with the Vietnamese Communist delegations to the Paris peace talks.
Hubbard told the group that the Communist Party of the USA had paid for his trip and that he was now acting as a member of the Coordinating Committee of the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Hubbard said that he would know ten days after he left Paris or sometime around November TwentyThree—TwentyFour, next, when in the near future, and how many VVAW members would be allowed to enter North Vietnam, and thus the persons to go on that trip would be designated by VVAW National Leadership at that time.
www.learnedhand.com /kerryunfit7.htm   (3906 words)

  
 www.wintersoldier.com - John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Al Hubbard's own claim to have been a transport pilot wounded in combat was discredited when the Department of Defense released documents demonstrating that, though Hubbard had been in the Air Force, he was neither a pilot nor an officer, had never served in Vietnam and had never been in combat.
Hubbard also signed the People's Peace Treaty, a PCPJ document that reiterated the positions of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, on behalf of the VVAW.
An FBI field surveillance report stamped November 11, 1971 reported that the FBI had learned at the Regional VVAW Convention in Norman Oklahoma, on November 5-7, 1971, that John Kerry and Al Hubbard were planning to travel to Paris later in the month to engage in talks with the Vietnamese communist peace delegations.
ice.he.net /~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=puppets   (2852 words)

  
 VVAW Remembered
The Mankato VVAW office organized a regional VVAW meeting that was accompanied by a peace conference sponsored by VVAW and the Mankato State Student Union Board.
Members of the VVAW national office attended and both John Kerry and Al Hubbard of the national office addressed the conference, as well as US Senator Vance Hartke from Indiana.
VVAW was still considered a threat to J. Edgar and labeled a subversive organization, and of course I needed watching.
www.jwsrockgarden.com /vvaw-jwa.htm   (2250 words)

  
 Kerry's lying about his part in 'Nam - SOHH.com Global Forum
Kerry said he hasn't spoken to former anti-war associate Al Hubbard since the two men appeared side by side on national television in April 1971, but according to author Gerald Nicosia, that assertion is wrong.
But shortly thereafter, Hubbard, who had been introduced on the NBC program as a decorated Air Force captain, was exposed for having exaggerated his military credentials.
Kerry and Hubbard had a heated argument at the St. Louis meeting in July that was "witnessed by 200 veterans," according to Nicosia.
forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=447290   (1076 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans Against the War
THE TWO historic events organized by the VVAW that would catapult the organization into the leadership of the antiwar movement were the Winter Soldier Investigation and protests in Washington, D.C., called Dewey Canyon III.
The VVAW gave the name "Winter Soldier" to its war crimes investigation as a reference to Tom Paine’s tribute to the soldiers who stayed the course during the darkest days of the American Revolution in the 18th century.
Al Hubbard said that the purpose of the investigation was to show that "My Lai was not an isolated incident," but "only a minor step beyond the standard official United States policy in Indochina."
www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/512/512_08_VVAW.shtml   (1893 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Kerry was appointed to the VVAW Executive Committee to assist in preparing Dewey Canyon III, VVAW's limited incursion into the land of Congress in 1971 (Nicosia, 98-99).
VVAW members defied orders that they not camp on the mall, led by Gold Star mothers placed wreaths in Arlington Cemetery, demonstrated at the Pentagon and Supreme Court, and threw their medals onto the steps of the Capitol Building (Brinkley, 2-11; Hunt, 94-119; Nicosia, 98-149; Wells, 493-498).
Al Hubbard was an important leader in Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
www.vvaw.org /faq   (2147 words)

  
 Kerry-Linked Anti-War Group Can't Bury Deceit -- 03/03/2004
That man, Al Hubbard, remains out of the spotlight, perhaps because the war record he touted in directing a prominent anti-war group that included Kerry, was fabricated.
Hubbard's deceit, which he later admitted, continues to cast doubt about the truthfulness of the anti-war group's allegations more than three decades after they were leveled.
When Overend personally confronted Hubbard with the results of his investigation, Hubbard told him he was considering a lawsuit against the Defense Department for giving out erroneous information, indicated he had requested copies of his own files and would not comment to the media until he had received the records.
www.cnsnews.com /Politics/archive/200403/POL20040303a.html   (1312 words)

  
 Al Hubbard (VVAW) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred H. Hubbard was a U.S. Air Force veteran, anti-war and civil rights activist, Black Panther, executive secretary of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and poet.
Hubbard enlisted in the United States Air Force in October 1952, reinlisted twice and was honorably discharged after 14 years of service.
Al Hubbard dicovered the alatrope, a small herd animal that is eaten by lions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Hubbard_(VVAW)   (531 words)

  
 .:DANEgerus Weblog:. Colonic Conservatism for those whose ignorance tilts Left Comments Page
Kerry's used "testimony" from the VVAW's "Winter Soldier Investigation" as the basis for his war crimes charges, although none of the witnesses there were willing to sign depositions affirming their claims.
Hubbard was actually a staff sergeant who was never assigned to Vietnam.
The VVAW was a radical and potentially violent organization that formally considered assassinating prominent supporters of the war.
www.danegerus.com /weblog/Comments.asp?svComment=13090   (642 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: John Kerry's Trail of Treachery by WinterSoldier.com
Members of the VVAW meet in a Detroit hotel to document war crimes that they had participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam.
When it broke up, VVAW was $75,000 in the fl, and busfare for at least a few hundred out-of-towners was assured." Writing in "Winter Soldiers," Richard Stacewicz will cite an FBI memorandum dated April 13, 1971 as follows, "VVAW had received fifty thousand dollars from United States Senators McGovern and Hatfield, who...
Hubbard is introduced as a former Air Force captain who had spent two years in Vietnam and was wounded in action.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12920   (2716 words)

  
 Kerry's Anti-war Group Can't Bury Deceit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hubbard was executive director of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) when he appeared with Kerry on NBC's "Meet the Press" on April 18, 1971.
Hubbard then went on the network's "Today" show admitting that he had lied about his rank because "he was convinced no one would listen to a fl man who was also an enlisted man." According to military documents, Hubbard never achieved a military rank higher than staff sergeant.
When Overend confronted Hubbard with the results of his investigation, Hubbard told him he was considering a lawsuit against the Defense Department for giving out erroneous information, indicated he had requested copies of his own files and would not comment to the media until he had received the records.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/3/3/92854.shtml   (1343 words)

  
 Kerry's Mentor: Black Panther And Phony Vietnam Vet, Al Hubbard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hubbard first claimed he was a decorated Air Force Captain who had caught shrapnel in his spine flying a transport plane into Da Nang in 1966.
Al was older by at least a decade than most of the other vets in VVAW, and he was already highly politicized.
Hubbard's falsely claimed "wounds" from his Vietnam service (also proven false) were a rib injury from basketball game in 1956 and a back injury in 1961 during a soccor game.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1080094/posts   (4671 words)

  
 Media Monitor - Kerry's Commie Friends - May 7, 2004
The FBI documents refer to the "possible violence-prone posture" of VVAW and how the group is coming under "subversive influence or control." Critics might say this is just heated rhetoric from an FBI that was determined to discredit the anti-war movement, but the facts in the documents demonstrate why this group came under surveillance.
The documents on several occasions report that Kerry believed that one of the founders of VVAW, Al Hubbard, who claimed to be a decorated Vietnam vet, had never served in Vietnam, and had never been a member of the military.
A document reports that Hubbard even said his trip to Paris "was financed by the CPUSA." The document says that Hubbard was trying to arrange for VVAW to accept American POWs released by Hanoi.
www.aim.org /media_monitor/1497_0_2_0_C   (479 words)

  
 The American Thinker
This proposal was made in the presence of [redacted] VVAW Arkansas organizer, [redacted] and [redacted] (LNU), all from Arkansas, [redacted] the VVAW regional coordinator for Missouri and Kansas, and a delegate from Montana, and three delegates from St. Louis, names unknown.
The telegram said that HUBBARD was in contact with the North Vietnamese Peace Delegation and he had been confidentially told that the next prisoner of war (POW) released would be effected to VVAW delegates.
In the telegram HUBBARD said he was currently negotiating with the North Vietnamese delegation to extend the Christmas cease-fire, which had already been agreed upon, for an indefinite period beyond the December 31, 1971, deadline.
www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=3820   (1880 words)

  
 SwiftVets.com :: View topic - Hubbard lied about his rank and never served in Vietnam
A CBS reporter uncovered the truth: Hubbard was a staff sergeant, not a captain or a pilot.
The Kerry Timeline shows that he and Hubbard were raising money for VVAW together in August, 1971 according to the NY Times - still selling their VVAW act on war crimes - over 4 months after NBC already exposed Hubbard as a fraud.
Kerry is documented as representing VVAW up to July, 1972, 8 months after Kerry claims he quit, and over 14 months after Kerry knows that Hubbard, still the leader of VVAW, was never in Vietnam.
horse.he.net /~swiftpow/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3811   (557 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans Against The War FBI Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The investigation of the VVAW gained steam after Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara saw an advertisement from the group in the November 11, 1967 edition of the New York Times.
A member of the Connecticut chapter of the VVAW was arrested with an explosive device en route to a speech given by Vice President Spiro Agnew.
After the United States withdrew from Vietnam, the focus of the VVAW moved towards seeking amnesty for those who were jailed for resisting the draft and other anti-war crimes.
www.paperlessarchives.com /vvaw.html   (619 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Commentary: Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement on John Kerry
VVAW national leader Al Hubbard appointed Kerry to the VVAW Executive Committee to assist in preparing Dewey Canyon III, VVAW's limited incursion into the land of Congress in 1971.
VVAW as an organization does not endorse candidates for public office.
VVAW is working to end the war in Iraq and demand decent benefits for all vets.
www.vvaw.org /commentary/?id=400   (439 words)

  
 SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=20473002
The disclosures about Hubbard were not sufficient to cause the VVAW to throw him out, even after it was revealed that he was not a Vietnam veteran.
As has been seen, Hubbard was a major player at the VVAW steering committee meeting in Kansas City in November 1971, where he described to the group the negotiations he had conducted with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris, attempting to effect a release of POWs to the VVAW around Christmas of that year.
The FBI surveillance reports clearly indicate that both Hubbard and Kerry were at that historic November 1971 VVAW meeting in Kansas City, and that the two had a heated exchange, prompting Kerry to tell the group that he intended to resign from the VVAW executive committee.
www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=20473002   (3834 words)

  
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VVAW's self-defined initial mission was to "expos[e] the ugly truth about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and … the unjust nature of that war." Its portrayal of U.S. troops as war criminals angered most veterans.
VVAW has denounced the Patriot Act and views the post-9/11 detention of Muslims and Arabs taken into custody in terrorism investigations as an assault on civil rights.
VVAW was a signatory to a February 20, 2002
www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6351   (599 words)

  
 Thomas H. Lipscomb
Hubbard claimed to be a wounded Air Force officer who had served at Danang during the Vietnam War.
Hubbard was never in Vietnam, was never wounded, and was not an officer, as subsequent research and Mr.Kerry himself have pointed out.
Hubbard."Kerry made a long speech punctuated at frequent intervals by the demand: 'Who is Al Hubbard?'" and "challenged him to prove he was a Vietnam veteran." According to the book, Mr.
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/lipscomb031604.asp   (843 words)

  
 Combat Vets Against John Kerry Timeline
August, 1970 -- Al Hubbard asks Tod Ensign and Jeremy Rifkin of the CCI to join with the VVAW, the Reverend Dick Fernandez of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam (CALCAV), Jane Fonda, Mark Lane and others to organize national hearings on war crimes.
Hubbard's trip comes in response to an invitation to "VVAW, Communist Party (CP) USA, and left wing group in Paris, name unrecalled," and is financed by the Communist Party USA.
November 15, 1971 -- After trying unsuccessfully to have Al Hubbard removed from the group's leadership, John Kerry resigns from the Executive Committee of the VVAW for personal reasons.
www.bowlersresourcecenter.com /notkerry/timeline.htm   (3560 words)

  
 John Kerry - Unfit for Command - Kerry's Antiwar Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The problem for John Kerry and the other VVAW members present at the Kansas City meeting was that a conspiracy to commit murder may itself be a crime, whether or not any murder is actually committed.
Investigative reporter Tom Lipscomb broke the VVAW assassination story in the New York Sun with a series of articles appearing in March 2004.1 When presented with the details of the assassination plot from the Kansas City meeting, his first reaction was to lie.
Al Hubbard and Ramsey Clark stand on the stage, right hands clasped in what looks like a Black Power salute, with John Kerry standing in the background.
www.learnedhand.com /kerryunfit8.htm   (6972 words)

  
 SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=20687516
The two documents also connect the dots between the Vietnamese communists and the radical U.S. group People's Coalition for Peace and Justice through the person of Al Hubbard, a coordinating member of PCPJ and the executive director of VVAW while Kerry was its national spokesman.
"Al Hubbard and John Kerry were carrying out the predetermined agenda of the enemy in a coordinated fashion," Corsi said.
Corsi emphasizes that before the discovery of this document, he and other researchers had no direct evidence that Hanoi actually was directing the antiwar movement to implement the regime's goals, although they assumed it to be the case based on other indications.
www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=20687516   (1823 words)

  
 Political Crossfire Forums :: View topic - Kerry for President??? What America should know.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Maybe you exclusively read partisan news, but you will disagree with yourself in October once elections are postponed once again or there are lots of headlines with "bomb", "election" and "afghanistan" in them.
This is all because Bush had the balls to bring the war to their turf, which needed to be done.
al Qaeda enjoys less support in Iraq now than they have in a sleuigh of other places...
www.politicalcrossfire.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=9611   (7064 words)

  
 TonyRogers.com | John Kerry's Political Friends
According to the Nicosia book and interviews with VVAW members who were involved, at the Vietnam Veterans Against the War Kansas City leadership conference, Mr.
Camil’s plan was presented to all the chapter coordinators present and the VVAW leadership.
Nicosia,“H e resigned from the executive committee” after a spectacular argument with VVAW leader Al Hubbard at the July national leadership meeting in St Louis.
www.tonyrogers.com /news/kerry_vvaw_assassination.htm   (1198 words)

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