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1969 Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Vietnam War Peace Protest Draft Newsletter:
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1969 Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Vietnam War

A National Emergency Committee

November 6, 1969

Issues and Actions

Peace Protest Draft Newsletter

Mrs. Coretta Scott King Atlanta, Georgia

(MLK Martin Luther King’s Wife)

8.5” x 11” Brochure

CO-CHAIRMEN

Dr. John C. Bennett

President,

Union Theological Seminary

Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel

Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Mrs. Coretta Scott King Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Philip Scharper Vice-President, Sheed & Ward, Inc.

Most Rev. James P. Shannon Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul Minneapolis

DIRECTOR

Rey. Richard R. Fernandez

STAFF ASSOCIATE

Rev. Thomas Lee Hayes Stockholm, Sweden

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

Mr. Theodore W. Johnson

Rey. Richard Killmer Mr. Michael O. Sedore

CONSULTANTS

Dr. Peter Berger

Marie M. Runyon

A REMINDER

A week or two ago you probably received our Fall fund appeal, you have not taken time before this to contribute to the work of our National Committee, we hope you will do so in the near future.

An envelope is enclosed for your convenience.

Mr. Nixon's speech of this past Monday should not sway us from our continued demand that all United States forces be withdrawn from Vietnam. We all know that the Russican occupation of Czechoslovakia drastically influenced the politics of that country just a little over a year ago. So also we can understand the enormous impact of even 200, 000 Americans troops on the politics of South Vietnam and the future of Southeast Asia.

While we are pleased that Mr. Nixon's announcement will, at least in the immediate sense, probably cut down the loss of life, we cannot afford the luxury of assuming "the job is done" until there is a firm and definite commitment to remove all United States troops from Vietnam and to allow the Vietnamese to make decisions with respect to their future political situation. It is to "finish the job" which we have begun for which your financial support is needed.

NATIONAL END THE WAR FAST

Enclosed you will find a brochure which explains in some detail a national fast which our committee along with many other groups is calling for the Thanksgiving holidays. While Vietnamese continue to suffer and while Americans and Vietnamese continue to die in Vietnam, there cannot be any real sense of Thanksgiving in our own nation. Our hope is that many persons will seize upon the Thanksgiving season as an opportunity to express their deep concern about the political and moral tragedy which the war in Vietnam continues to represent.

Specifically, we believe that persons holding vigils and simultaneously fasting in local communities all over the country during this Thanksgiving season will provide another demonstration against the war which will be of considerable importance.

Renewal of any society is always dependent, at least in part, upon

the renewal of individual persons within that society. We believe that a fast at Thanksgiving time by persons who have cared long and deeply about those who.