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	VVAW and the Winter Soldier Investigation (1971)
		In 1971 VVAW held "hearings" on the war under the title "Winter Soldier Investigation." At first, this group participated in antiwar protests and demonstrations organized by others.
		Then, from January 31 to February 2, 1971, VVAW leaders held an investigation of the conduct of the war in a Detroit Howard Johnson motel.
		By the 1971 VVAW hearings, the trial of Lt. William L. Calley by the Army was planned.
	www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/VVAW_WinterSoldier.html (736 words)

	VVAW - The Split
		VVAW was aided by Quakers and pacifists who volunteered to be the detainees, and subjects of the harassment.
		VVAW was, from the veiwpoint of the radical left, to become the vangaurd of the revolution.
		The general membership of VVAW was caught between a rock and a hard place, with the Feds on one side and the leftist loonies on the other.
	www.sonomacountyfreepress.com /hassna/vvaw.html (5231 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		VVAW describes itself as a national veterans' organization that campaigns for peace, justice, and the rights of all United States military veterans.
		VVAW considers itself as "anti-war", although not in the pacifistic sense.
		VVAW was founded by six Vietnam war veterans, including Jan "Barry" Crumb, Mark Donnelly, and David Braum, in New York City in June 1967 after they marched together in the April 15, 1967 Spring Mobilization to End the War anti-war demonstration with over 400,000 other protesters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VVAW (3099 words)

	John Kerry VVAW controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		VVAW consisted of people who, like Kerry, had served in Vietnam, and others, who opposed American involvement in the Vietnam War.
		VVAW member Randy Barnes was also quoted in the media as having seen Kerry at the Kansas City meeting.
		Kerry claims he resigned partly because he was uncomfortable with the radicalism of some VVAW members, and partly because he wanted to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he did in 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Kerry_VVAW_controversy (982 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
		VVAW exposed the shameful neglect of many disabled vets in VA Hospitals (Hunt, 40, 186; Nicosia, 317-320; Stacewicz, 209, 262, 283) and helped draft legislation to improve educational benefits and create job programs (Stacewicz, 23, 163, 181; Wells, 489).
		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).
	www.vvaw.org /faq (2147 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.
		VVAW was still considered a threat to J. Edgar and labeled a subversive organization, and of course I needed watching.
		There are a still a number of VVAW members from our college years that get together to discuss the most recent war and its impact on our lives, families, and the world.
	www.jwsrockgarden.com /vvaw-jwa.htm (2250 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1971 \| Great Moments on the Mall
		In 1971 VVAW held "hearings" on the war under the title "Winter Soldier Investigation," gathering testimony on political and military leaders' conduct of the war.
		For five days in April 1971, VVAW led demonstrations in Washington, callimg them "a limited incursion into the country of Congress." The protest lasted a week and included an encampment to protest the war and to lobby Congress.
		VVAW continued antiwar protests in 1972, and as American involvement in Vietnam ended in 1973, advocated universal amnesty for draft resisters and deserters.
	www.savethemall.org /moments/vvaw.html (324 words)

	May 1971 anti-war protests and arrests on the Lexington, Massachusetts Battle Green
		Many of the issues she was involved in divided the town, she says, in the same manner it was divided by the issue of the VVAW staying on the Green.
		The strength of the VVAW, the feelings of shared emotion and optimism about bringing about an end to the war were at their height, he says, around the time of the arrests on the Green.
		She discusses her support of the VVAW and describes the events of Memorial Day 1971 from the perspective of a pregnant wife accompanying her husband in protesting the war.
	www.lexingtonbattlegreen1971.com /lexington1971.html (6389 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.
		The VVAW played an important role in bringing about the end of that war--and to this day, the organization continues, having joined the protest against Bush’s latest invasion of Iraq.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/512/512_08_VVAW.shtml (1893 words)

	Joseph Remiro - From VVAW member to 1973 SLA Assassin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Interestingly, the atmosphere of the VVAW in the early 1970s was so radicalized that another former member actually did carry out a well-known assassination of a government official on American soil.
		The point is that the VVAW was demonstrably capable, in the leftist, anti-war environment of the early 1970s, of attracting Vietnam Veterans and radicalizing them to such a degree that they would be willing to carry out political assassinations on American soil.
		The VVAW was successful at concealing the Phoenix Project from the FBI when they twiced moved their notorious Kansas City meeting.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1104805/posts (7609 words)

	FBI Investigated Activism of Kerry, VVAW
		Intelligence officials referred to the VVAW in their reports as the "New Left." "Due to abundant indications of subversive influence, we are actively investigating VVAW," read one FBI report from 1971.
		Other former VVAW members recalled their suspicion that their telephones were being tapped and their concern that informants had infiltrated their ranks.
		The files show that Kerry and his activities within VVAW were a subject of FBI surveillance throughout the summer of 1971, during a time he had said he had already left the organization.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /articles_2004/kerry_vvaw_cointelpro.html (2298 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)
		VVAW participated in and organized antiwar demonstrations, public education efforts, militant actions, and public hearings.
		The VVAW of the 1990s is quite different from the VVAW of the 1960s, but still maintains an active presence as a veterans' peace organization.
		In the mid-1970s the shrinking VVAW was riven by a struggle between radical and liberal members.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/VVAW_entry.html (434 words)

	The Reactionary
		While the objective of the VVAW was mainly anti-war, they also formed loose working associations with other groups like the Black Panthers and communist organizations like Student for a Democratic Society and the People’s Coalition of Peace and Justice.
		To that end Kerry and the VVAW were willing to turn all of the men who had served, been wounded and died in Vietnam into war criminals.
		One of the active members of the VVAW told investigators that the leadership had directed the entire membership not to cooperate with military authorities.
	www.mindspring.com /~thereactionary/2004.09.01_arch.html (1549 words)

	John Kerry - Unfit for Command - Kerry's Antiwar Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		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.
		Continuing his representation of the VVAW even after he was aware that various VVAW leaders had falsified their credentials and were not in fact Vietnam veterans.
	www.learnedhand.com /kerryunfit8.htm (6972 words)

	Steve Rosenthal on Kerry and the AntiWar Movement
		The VVAW helped the morale of and lent credibility to the peace movement when it was being viciously attacked and harassed by the likes of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew (the Vice President) and many others.
		VVAW and the anti-war movement within the U.S. military were certainly a big plus for the anti-war movement as a whole, as Jerry Lembcke and H.
		He increasingly distanced himself from VVAW and later stated, I resigned and left [the VVAW] because the agenda of some of the folks within the veteransmovement ultimately became confused and went way beyond just trying to end the war.
	www.pipeline.com /~rougeforum/rosenthalkerry.html (913 words)

	Communists Infiltrated Kerry's Anti-war Group, Historian Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicosia said that Kerry was aware of communism's increasing presence in VVAW operations and that it was one of the factors that led to his resignation as one of the leaders of the group in November 1971.
		Cline, who joined VVAW in 1970 and today serves as a national coordinator for the group, said the veterans were not concerned with the political views of their fellow members.
		VVAW reached out to radical individuals and groups in part to achieve racial harmony, he said.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/4/2/101915.shtml (922 words)

	Kerry-Linked Anti-War Group Can't Bury Deceit -- 03/03/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cline recalled that the VVAW did not disassociate itself from Hubbard as a result of his admitted lies.
		Burkett's book documents false testimonies and reveals that many of the men who worked with VVAW and other anti-war groups who had alleged war atrocities during the Vietnam War had either lied about their background or had claims that were unverifiable.
		Burkett is critical of Kerry for never having addressed the issue of whether VVAW and the anti-war movement relied on impostors or phony servicemen.
	www.cnsnews.com /Politics/archive/200403/POL20040303a.html (1312 words)

	John Kerry - Unfit for Command - Meeting With The Enemy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The VVAW Steering Committee meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, from Friday, November 12, 1971, through Sunday, November 14, 1971, was a raucous meeting, the dramatics of which are emphasized by recently released FBI undercover investigative files.
		The VVAW did not stop at attempting to undermine support for the war in the U.S. by propagating its false claims of war crimes and atrocities.
		The goal that the VVAW was seeking to achieve through its highly publicized demonstrations in Washington, D.C., during April 1971 was to convey one simple message: The United States had lost its moral way in opposing the Viet Cong.
	www.learnedhand.com /kerryunfit7.htm (3906 words)

	John F. Kerry - VVAW Research
		The FBI reports that VVAW was nearly inactive until the Moratoriums in the fall of 1969.
		The VVAW, an antiwar group, founded in the spring of 1967, which Kerry was one of the national leaders of, was receiving directions from the North Vietnamese Communist Government.
		The VVAW leaders were meeting with the North Vietnamese Communist Government, leaders of the Communist Party in Moscow, and possibly the KGB, leaders of the Communist Party International in Paris, leaders of the Communist Party USA, and last but not least the group of Communists in South Vietnam that backed the North Vietnamese Communists.
	www.johnfkerrysucks.com /johnkerryfiles.html (2078 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against the War
		Now, thirty-nine years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.
		VVAW has never stopped working to protect the welfare of those who served their country.
		As veterans who have experienced an illegal and immoral war, there is little doubt among members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War that the war in Iraq is illegal and immoral.
	www.vvaw.org (327 words)

	Thomas H. Lipscomb
		John Kerry had been the VVAW's principal spokesman on "Meet the Press," "The Dick Cavitt Show" and a Senate Committee as well as a member of the Executive Committee for much of the previous year and a half.
		Kerry's breaking of his relations with his VVAW members, Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," reports the events as follows: "In a November 10 letter housed at the VVAW papers in Madison, Wisconsin, Kerry quit, politely noting he had been proud to serve in the national organization.
		Several VVAW members have recalled Kerry's presence at the Kansas City meeting where the assassination plot was debated which Kerry has always denied attending.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/lipscomb031504.asp (1739 words)

	vvaw.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW, Inc.) is a national veterans organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam vets marched together in a peace demonstration.
		VVAW quickly took up the struggle for the rights and needs of veterans.
		VVAW also fought for amnesty for war resisters, including vets with bad discharges.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /vvaw.htm (383 words)

	Valley NEWS > ST. JOHN VALLEY NEWS > SJVNews.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 bus fare 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...
		January 25, 1972 -- John Kerry represents the VVAW at the "People's State of the Union" in Washington, D.C. February, 1972 -- A VVAW delegation attends a World Assembly for Peace and Independence of the People of Indochina in Versailles, France.
	www.sjvnews.com /propublish/art.php?artid=49 (3954 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against The War FBI Files
		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 (627 words)

	I love Jet Noise: Nicosia Alleges Kerry Lying About VVAW Resignation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kerry also said he did not believe that VVAW's credibility was hurt as a result of Hubbard falsifying his war record.
		Nicosia also disputed Kerry's denial that he was in attendance when VVAW members met in Kansas City in November 1971 to discuss the possibility of assassinating U.S. senators still committed to the Vietnam War.
		Kerry was at the meeting, Nicosia insisted, pointing to FBI files and the minutes from the VVAW meeting, which he has obtained.
	joatmoaf.typepad.com /i_love_jet_noise/2004/03/nicosia_alleges.html (638 words)

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