GI Movement Timeline for May (1965 - 1973) | ||||
The War and other developments | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
| 17 | US Government orders the bombing of Laos | Laos | ||
| 1965 | ||||
| 3 | The first U.S. Army combat troops, 3500 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, arrive in Vietnam | Vietnam | ||
| 1966 | ||||
| 14 | South Vietnam in a state of virtual civil war as military units loyal to Prime Minister Ky battle renegade South Vietnamese Buddhist troops in DaNang and Hue. | Vietnam | ||
| 1967 | ||||
| 18-26 | US forces enter the Demilitarized Zone for the first time. | Vietnam | ||
| 1968 | ||||
| 5 | Mini Tet Offensive launched | Vietnam | ||
| 10 | Peace talks open | Paris, France | ||
| 13-30 | France swept by protests, strikes and demonstrations. | France | ||
| 1969 | ||||
| n.d. | The New York Times breaks the story about the secret bombing of Cambodia. In response Nixon orders illegal wiretapping of journalists. | |||
| 10-20 | Hamburger Hill | Vietnam | ||
| 14-15 | The People's Park occupied by National Guard to protect the Park from the people, Martial law and curfew declared. 1 protestor shot and killed | Berkeley, CA | ||
| 28 | Pentagon issues the Guidance on Dissent, meant to codify how n]base commanders were to deal with distribution of underground papers, tyhe publication of GI papers, what restrictions could be placed on off-post gathering places, under what circumstances could servicement participate in demonstrations and how to respond rto efforts to form GI unions | |||
| 1970 | ||||
| 1 | Nixon calls antiwar students "bums blowing up campuses." | |||
| 4 | 4 students killed by National Guardsmen in antiwar demonstration at Kent State | Kent State, Ohio | ||
| 6-20 | National student strike in protest of the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State. | |||
| 14-15 | Two students killed. | Jackson State | ||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1 | Daniel and Phillip Berrigan indicted for conspiring to kidnap the President. | |||
| 5 | Riot control units of the 82nd Airborne Division are deployed in Washington DC to "preserve law and order" as 50,000 anti war protestors descend on the Capital to "Stop the Government". | Wshington DC | ||
| 1972 | ||||
| 4 | US and South Vietnam suspend their participation in Paris Peace Talks. | |||
| 9 | Haiphong Harbor mined. | Vietnam | ||
| 11 | Chicago 7 convictions overturned. | |||
| 14 | Headquarters of US Army in Vietnam decommissioned. | Vietnam | ||
| 1973 | ||||
| 17 | Senate Watergate hearings begin | |||
GI Papers, Coffeehouses and Organizations | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| 9 | Ex-Pvt. Gren Whitman publishes "The Ten Commandments, Army Style" and the "Short Timer's Code of Conduct" (Liberation News Service, newspacket no. 72.) | |||
| 12 | LNS reports that 12,000 servicemen "at posts all over the world, in the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, have joined the American Servicemen's Unio" in the 123 months since it was founded by Andy Stapp.(Liberation News Service, newspacket no. 75) | |||
| 1969 | ||||
| n.d | GIs serving with the 101st Airborne, in Vietnam, publish Statement in Support of the Presidio 27 | |||
| n.d. | First issue of Eyes Left published. | Travis AFB | ||
| n.d. | First issue of Final Flight published. | San Francisco | ||
| n.d. | First issue of Harass the Brass published. After one issue title changed to A Four Year Bummer | Chanute AFB | ||
| n.d. | First issue of Spartacus published. | Fort Lee | ||
| n.d. | First issue of Up Front published. | Los Angeles | ||
| n.d. | Earth coffee house opens | Evanston | ||
| n.d. | Fort Dix Coffe house opens | |||
| n.d. | Pacific Counseling Service opens first office | Monterey | ||
| n.d. | USSF founded | |||
| n.d. | 18 GIs from 101st Airborne sign statement in support of Presidio 27 | Phu Bai, Vietnam | ||
| 7 | In response to Fort Bragg Regulation No. 210-23 (which states that “no publications, including pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, handbills and flyers could be distributed on-base except through regularly established distribution outlets or under appropriate contractual agreements,"unless requests are submitted at least 7 days before the proposed distribution), members of GIs United submit written request to distribute copies of the Bill of Rights and Oath of Enlistment. | Fort Bragg | ||
| 12 | Brass agree to allow distribution of copies of the Bill of Rights and Oath of Enlistment. Permission revoked next day. | Fort Bragg | ||
| 18 | Editors of Rough Draft, petition to distribute paper on-base. | Fort Eustis | ||
| 24 | Survivors of Hamburger Hill post a $10,000 bounty, in GI Says for the successful fragging of their commanding officer Lt. Col. Weldon Honeycutt. | Vietnam | ||
| 1970 | ||||
| n.d. | First Issue of COM Newsletter published. | Washington DC | ||
| n.d | First issue of The Destroyer published. | Philadelphia | ||
| n.d. | First Issue of First Amendment published. | Fort Wayne | ||
| n.d | First issue of Ft. Polk Puke published. | Fort Polk | ||
| n.d. | First Issue of Morning Report published. | Fort Devens | ||
| n.d. | First Issue of Out Now published. | Long Beach, CA | ||
| n.d. | First Issue of Right-On Post published. | Seaside, CA | ||
| n.d. | FTA Manifesto published. | Fort Knox | ||
| n.d. | Spring Offensive Committee founded. | Fort Hood | ||
| n.d. | Pacific Counseling Service open office in Tokyo | Japan | ||
| n.d. | Editors of Morning Report petition to distribute paper on-base. | Fort Devens | ||
| n.d. | 50 GIs distribute leaflets outside Daenner Barracks | West Germany | ||
| 7 | GIs United submit request to distribute first ten Amendments o US Constitution and U.S. Army Oath of Enlistment on base | Fort Bragg | ||
| 15 | GI and GI wives for Peace coffee house with Dave Dellinger, John Froines and Phil Ochs. | Grand Forks AFB | ||
| 19 | Quakerhouse, meeting place of Fort Bragg GIs United, destroyed in fire-bombing. Police take no action | Fayetteville | ||
| 22 | GIs United hold press conference announcing their plans "to step up efforts to assert their constitutional rights in the face of official harassment" | |||
| 31 | National GI Alliance founded. | |||
| 1971 | ||||
| n.d | First issue of Arctic Arsenal published. | Fort Greely | ||
| n.d. | First issue of Helping Hand published. | Mountain Home AFB | ||
| n.d | First issue of Liberated Barracks published. | Hawaii | ||
| n.d | First issue of P. O. W. published. | Monterey | ||
| n.d. | Brothers and Sisters for Equality founded. | Fort Meade | ||
| 1972 | ||||
| 12 | GI Counseling center at Clark AFB raided for 3rd time in 2 months | Philippines | ||
| 1973 | ||||
| 2 | United We Stand bookstore fire-,bombed, no one was injured | Jacksonville, NC | ||
| 5 | National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty founded | Washington DC | ||
Protests and Demonstrations | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
| n.d. | Six GIs (Sp/5 Paul J. Gaedtke, Pvt. A. D. Stapp, Sp/4 Richard Wheaton, Pvt. Stan Ingerman, PFC T. E. O'Reilly, and Pvt. J. R. Wood) send telegram of support which said: "We support you in your courageous stand against America's dirty imperialist war in Vietnam. You have recognized that as a doctor your duty lies in healing the sick, not in training Gestapo-like Green Beret killers. We wish you luck in your trial and hope others will follow your example" to Dr. Howard Levy. | Fort Sill | ||
| n.d | More than 1000, including Veterans, reservists and their families demonstrate in DC calling on Johnson to withdraw all troops from Vietnam. | Washington DC | ||
| nd | 3 Vietnam Veterans, including Donald Duncan testify before the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal about atrocities in Vietnam. | Stockholm | ||
| 30 | Jeff Sharlett "a Vietnam veteran and now chairman of the SDS chapter at Indiana University" addressed a rally saying "the U.S. was the aggressor" and urged young men to refuse induction. | Indiana | ||
| 1968 | ||||
| 10 | Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union launch "The Summer Offensive -- an all-out effort of ant-iwar and anti-draft activity in cities and towns in Wisconsin and ... Iowa. ... The offensive will include an anti-draft caravan to bring guerilla theater, speeches, literature and music to various locales" (Liberation News Service, no. 72) | |||
| 20 | Robert Talmanson (convicted and sentenced to three years in jail for failing to report for induction) and Sp/4 William Chase (Vietnam Vet who was AWOL from Fort Lewis) granted sanctuary in Arlington St. Church. | Boston | ||
| 1969 | ||||
| n.d. | GI-civilian teach-in. | Champaign Urbana | ||
| 1 | Rally in support of the "Presidio 27". | Lawrence, KS | ||
| 4 | GI-CAP clambake. | Tacoma | ||
| 10 | Antiwar Basic Training Day. | Philadelphia | ||
| 17 | GIs and members of VVAW hold meeting at the Echo Mike Coffeehouse | Riverside | ||
| 17 | GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. | Seattle | ||
| 19 | Joe Miles and 17 other GIs file suit in Federal Court against the Secretary of the Army and the Fort Bragg Commander (Lt. Gen. John Tolson) seeking an injunction which would prohibit the defendants from interfering with the Constitutional liberties of GIs at Fort Bragg. | North Carolina | ||
| 23 | On base demonstration. | Daenner Caserne, West Germany | ||
| 24 | GI-civilian Antiwar Picnic/Teach-in. | Riverside | ||
| 30 | GI-civilian antiwar Memorial Day Parade. | New York | ||
| 30 | GI-Civilian antiwar/anti occupation march. | Berkeley | ||
| 30 -31 | GI-CivilianAlliance for Peace [GI-CAP] antiwar basic training days:GI-CAP's current project is Antiwar Basic Training Days, slated for May 30th - Jun e 1st, the San FranciscoLabor Temple. There will be speeches by lawyers in current GI free speech cases, workshops for GIs and young people facing the draft, Army training films, and a rock dance. (Alliance Wall Poster, May 1969) | San Francisco | ||
| 1970 | ||||
| n.d | Lt. Jim Crawford (member of Concerned Officers Movement) resigns his commission one month early. | |||
| 1 | Nixon "officially orders" invasion of Cambodia | |||
| 2 | Antiwar petition, sponsored by the Reservists Committee to Stop the War and signed by more than 1000 Reservists and National Guardsmen published in The New Republic. | |||
| 11 | Reservists Committee to Stop the War file suit against Melvyn Laird and the Defense Department, demanding that the 122 Congressmen and Senators listed as active in the Reserves be asked to resign from the Reserves because "it is unconstitutional for a member of Congress to hold any position in the military, citing conflict of interest and divided loyalties." | |||
| 13 | GI Discussion Night at the Shelter Half Coffeehouse | Tacoma | ||
| 16 | Due to threat of GI led demonstrations, official Armed Forces Day activities cancelled at bases across US including Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Altus AFB, Andrews AFB, Cairns Army Air Field, Charleston Naval Base, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Dix, Fort Jackson, Fort Meade, Fort Monmouth, Fort Ord, Fort Polk, Fort Rucker, Grand Forks AFB, Great Lakes Naval Training Center,Grissom AFB, McDill AFB, Pickitanny Army Base, Pope AFB, US Army Aviation Systems Center [St. Louis], US Army Tank Center [Detroit] | |||
| 16 | Armed Faces Day
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| 17-23 | GI Week. | Berlin | ||
| 27 | Vietnam bound US destroyer Richard E. Anderson is sabotaged, returns to port withg $200,000 in damages and is delayed in departure for 2 months | San Diego | ||
| 29-31 | GI antiwar conference | Atlanta | ||
| 30 | GI-Civilian antiwar demonstration. | Detroit | ||
| 30 | Picnic for Peace. | Selfridge AFB | ||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1 | GI-civilian antiwar demonstrations | Fort Lewis | ||
| 1 | GI-civilian antiwar demonstrations | Newport Naval Base | ||
| 1 | GI-civilian antiwar demonstrations | Washington DC | ||
| 3 | Thousands of GIs go on a sick-call strike in protest of the Vietnam war and to show their support of the Peoples Peace Treaty. | Fort Lewis | ||
| 3 | VVAW members throw bags of cow manure on the steps of the Mall Entrance to the Pentagon. | Washington DC | ||
| 5 | Japanese militants celebrate "Childrens Day" by flying kites in flight path of Vietnam bound bombers | Iwakuni MCAS | ||
| 5 | Lt. Rory Sutton wear black armband in support of "Stop the Government" demonstrations in Washington DC | Long Binh, Vietnam | ||
| 10-18 | Nine days in may actions at bases and GI coffeehouses across the country. The following series of educational program | |||
| 14 | Andy Stapp's dishonorable discharge overturned andArmy instructed to change his status to an honorable discharge because he had been charged "with associations and beliefs and .. not ... with any military misconduct or matteras affectting his military record the allegations fail to state a basis for issuance of a less than honorable discharge." The judge further ruled that "it is impermissible for the military to punish an admittedly competemnt soldier merely becuase it disapproves of the company he keeps." | |||
| 15 | Armed Faces Day
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| 17 | Concerned Black Airmen hold an on-base service on dedicated to the memory of Malcolm X. | Chanute AFB | ||
| 17 | 100 GIs and WACs of Brothers and Sisters for Equality march on-post to protest against racism in the military | Fort Meade | ||
| 19 | US bases in Okinawa closed by a GI supported general strike of Okinawan workers. | Okinawa | ||
| 28 | VVAW begin"Operation POW" a 4 day march retracing the route of Paul Revere. 500 people join them in Lexington | Concord | ||
| 30-31 | Several hundred VVAW members march from Concord to Boston, reversing the path of Paul Revere's 1775 midnight ride. After defying a ban on overnight use of Battle Green in Lexington, site of the first battle of the American Revolution, 458 people are arrested and held overnight, including John Kerry. The following day the group marches from Bunker Hill to Boston Common. | Massachusetts | ||
| 31 | 1,000 American GIs, ignoring army regulations banning overseas demonstrations, gather to protest the Indochina war. 300 deliver an anti war petition to the military. | London, UK | ||
| 1972 | ||||
| n.d. | 100 GIs demonstrate on Memorial day, demanding "Peace Now". | Schweinfurth, West Germany | ||
| n.d. | Hundreds of GIs in Germany sign petition calling for Nixon's impeachment. | |||
| 1 | VVAW members occupy King County Republican Headquarters. | Seattle | ||
| 5 | Japanese antiwar activists shut the airbase down with kites. | Yakota AFB | ||
| 6 | Lance Cpl. Ronald McMiller and Lance Cpl. Phillip Walker read statement condemning racism at Iwakuni NAS at a press conference. | Tokyo | ||
| 11 | 30 GIs and 200 civilians block main gate to Offut AFB and hang antiwar banner across it for 3 hours | Offut AFB | ||
| 12 | Marione, Army and Navy brothers burn copies of Nixon's speech announcing mining of Haiphong Harbor | Okinawa | ||
| 13 | VVAW led demonstration to protest mining of Haiphong Harbor. | Seattle | ||
| 14 | At a press conference, Seaman Ted Short reads letter from sailors stationed in Japan with the 15th Destroyer Squadron, to President Nixon appealing to him to bring the Vietnam war to an end, not through escalation but through negotiations. | Yokohama | ||
| 19 | GIs from bases all over Berlin attend "People's Unity Dance", organized by GI paper Forward. | Berlin | ||
| 20 | Newport Harbor mined by the Newport Liberation Front | |||
| 20 | Armed Faces Day
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| 29 | Defying ban on overseas demonstrations, 100 GIs, wives, and dependants march against the war through American housing area. | Schweinfurt, West Germany | ||
| 1973 | ||||
| 1974 | ||||
| 18 | VVAW/WSO stage Arnmed Farces day demomnstrations at West Point, the Woods Veteran's Hospital (Milwaukee), thne Veterans Administration building (Cincinati) | |||
| 18 | Covered Wagon Coffeehouse sponsors "Alternative Forces Day" activities outside Mountain Home AFB | |||
| 31 | VVAW/WSObegin 40 mile march from Boulder to Denver | |||
Combat Refusal and Refusal of Orders | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| nd | Pvt. John Perry Refuses orders to Vietnam. | |||
| 2 | Airman George Edwards refuses to board plane for Vietnam | Langley AFB | ||
| 1969 | ||||
| 1970 | ||||
| 7 | Reported combat refusal - 3rd Batallion, 22nd Infantry. | Vietnamn | ||
| 11 | 6 GIs of 3rd Btn, 8th Inf, 4th Div refuse orders to board helicopters for invasion of Cambodia | Vietnam | ||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1972 | ||||
| 21 | 3 sailors from aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga take sanctuary as the ship leaves for Vietnam | San Diego | ||
AWOL and Desertion | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
| n.d. | Pvt. Philip Wagner deserts to protest US involvement in Southeast Asia. | |||
| 9 | Louis Armfieldwas founf by French police sleeping in a car on the left bank of the Seine and arrested for vagrancy | Paris | ||
| 20 | Louis Armfield, a deserter, given asylum in France. | |||
| 27 | The Army admits more than 700 GIs have deserted because of their opposition to the Vietnam war. | |||
| 1968 | ||||
| n.d. | "60 % of graduating seniors and first year graduate students at the University of Chicago will refuse to participate in the war in Vietnam according to a poll taken by the student government." ((Liberation News Service, newspacket no. 71) | |||
| 1 | Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate report 61 US deserters living in Canada, 27 in France, 12 in Mexico and 48 in Sweden. Total number of deserters living abroad reported by Defense Department at 230 | |||
| 4 | 6 American deserters hold press conference in Moscow to denounce the War. | Moscow | ||
| 4 | Sp/4 Michael Branch, a Black GI, deserts the army and joins the ranks of the Viet Cong to help in their fight for their independence from foreign domination. | Vietnam | ||
| 17 | Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate report 79 US deserters living in Canada, 29 in France, 14 in Mexico, 5 in Russia and 50 in Sweden. Total number of deserters living abroad reported by Defense Department at 282 an increase of 52 in 18 days | |||
| 21-22 | Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate hold hearings on "The Problem of Deserters From Military Service" | |||
| 25 | Terry Whitmore + 9 other deserters given asylum in Sweden. | |||
| 1969 | ||||
| n.d. | "Montreal [LNS] -- Deserters from tghe US Armed Forces will be welcome immigrants to Canada, according to new regulations announced recently by Canadian authorities." (Liberation News Service newspacket no. 166) | Canada | ||
| 1973 | ||||
| 4-5 | National Amnesty Conference | Washington DC | ||
| 17 | Meeeting of National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty | Chicago | ||
| 24 | Ad-Hoc Congressional Hearings on Unconditional Amnesty convened by Congresswoman Bella Abzug | Washington DC | ||
| 24 | Eddie Sowders turns himself in to U.S. government authorities in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC, wherethe Ad-HocCongressional Hearings were being held under the sponsorship of Families of Resisters for Amnesty. On surrendering he made the following comments:I like many GIs. at one time supported the war ... and regarded resistance... as criminal. I believed the Prresident and the military leaders when they said our mission ... was to protect the Vietnamese from aggression. I believed them so much that in 1966, I volunteered for Vietnam duty. | Washington DC | ||
| 26-28 | Amnesty Action Conference | Toronto | ||
Riots and Rebellions | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
13 | On-base riot | Fort Carson | ||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
| 7 | Stockade sit-in. | Fort Ord | ||
| 13 | Stockade rebellion. | Fort Carson | ||
| 20 | 300 GIs rebel beecause of poor living conditions in stockade | Fort Ord | ||
| 1970 | ||||
| 20 | Attempted fragging. An American guard and three South Koreans were injured, helicopter badly damaged. | Camp Humphries, South Korea | ||
| 21 | Black GIs in 1st Batn, 26th Inf. rebel after base commander ignores grievances | Hohenfels, West Germany | ||
| 26 | Sabotage | USS Richard B. Anderson | ||
| 29 | Blackl rebelliuon flares in 3rd Infantry Division at Ledward Barracks after German merchant refuses to serve Black GIs. Armed MPs face off against 150 GIs in front of 1st Brigade headquarters. | Schweinfurt, West Germany | ||
| 29 | 50 Black Gis burn 5 barracks after being denied passes | Pochon, South Korea | ||
| 1971 | ||||
| 11 | Sit-down strike. | Fort Ord Stockade | ||
| 17 | On-baseriot. | Fort Meade | ||
| 22-23 | On-base riot | Travis AFB | ||
| 22-23 | Fragmentation grenades and a booby explode at Camnp Humphreys | South Korea | ||
| 1972 | ||||
| 7 | Sit-in | Fort Belvoir Stockade | ||
| 8 | On-base riot | Camp Schwab Marine Base, Okinawa | ||
| 1973 | ||||
| 1 | Nuclear missile unit rebel against repressive Army policies - 38 trucks and 7 rocket launchers are sabotaged | New Ulm, West Germany | ||
Harassment and Repression | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
| 9 | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejects ACLU suit to block Capt. Levy's court martial | |||
| 10-30 | Court martial of Capt. Levy, he faces a maximum of 11 years in prison if he loses. | Fort Jackson | ||
| 1968 | ||||
| n.d. | US Embassy spokesman in Londonannounced plans to use U.S. troops in Berlin to control riots "if the local police and frontier guards are unable to keep the situation under control." (Liberation News Service, newspacket no. 71) | |||
| 1 | Air force sentences George B. Edwards to a year at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge for refusal of orders to Vietnam. | |||
| 22 | Pvt. Ken Stolte and Pfc Dan Amick each receive 4 years at hard labor for distributing antiwar leaflets | |||
| 23 | Federal Marshalls enter Arlington St Churchto arrest Robert Talmanson and Sp/4 William Chase. No one in the church offers any resistance however once taken outside the church supporters block the marshalls vehicles for more than two hours. They are finally cleared when extra police arrive and attack the resistors supporters. Two clergymen and several others were injured , 12 people were arrersted and later released without being charged. (Liberation News Service, newspacket no. 76) | Boston | ||
| 1969 | ||||
| n.d. | MPs attempt to break up "perfectly legal meeting" of GIs and staffers from Fort Dix Coffeehouse. "The group fully aware of its rights refused to be intimidated and ... thne Army was force to back down." (Liberation News Service newspacket no. 161) | Fort Dix | ||
| n.d. | 2 GIs "picked up for circulating a petition asking that their freedom of speech and of the press and their right to peaceably assemble not be abridged, the Army could find to charge them withj and they were released." (Liberation News Service newspacket no. 161) | Fort Dix | ||
| n.d. | Liberation News Service reports that Canadian Mounted Police were "cooperating with the F.B.I. to "expose" organizations in Canada that aid draft resisters." (Liberation News Service newspacket no. 164) | |||
| n.d. | Fort Bragg GIs United banned from using Servicemen's Club for on-base meetings. | Fort Bragg | ||
| 1 | Edilberto Chaparro (Fort Jackson 8) who had been held in stockade sincde March 21 for attending on-base antiwar meeting on March 20th discharged from Army | Fort Jackson | ||
| 2 | Army announces it had dropped charrges against Dominick Duddie and Curtis Mays (Fort Jackson 8) for attending on-base antiwar meeting on March 20th | Fort Jackson | ||
| 4 | Hal Muskat transferred to Fort Lee, for involvement in the distribution of underground newspapers on post. | Fort Dix | ||
| 6 | Edwin Arnett, the first GI to be tried for desertion from Vietnam to a foreign country, sentenced to four years at hard labor. | Fort Dix | ||
| 8 | Shiela Ryan reports in Liberation News Service newspacket no. 161 that "the U.S. Army has a nation-wide movement watching network, complete with ionformers and daily "intelligence" reports teletyped to bases across the country." ((Liberation News Service newspacket no. 161)) | |||
| 12 | Delmar Thomas (Fort Jackson 8) given undesirable discharge. | Fort Jackson | ||
| 16 | Tommie Woodfin (Fort Jackson 8) has charges dismissed | Fort Jackson | ||
| 18 | New York Times published article titled "Must the Citizen Give up his Civil Liberties when he jhoins the Army?" | |||
| 20 | Army announces it was dropping charges against Fort Jackson 8. | Fort Jackson | ||
| 20 | The brass revoked permission (which they had granted a week before) for Pvt. Joe Miles to distribute copies of the Bill of Rights on base. | Fort Bragg | ||
| 21 | Pvt. Joseph Cole, Pvt. Andrew Pulley and Pvt. Jose Rudder (Fort Jackson 8) released from stockade. | Fort Jackson | ||
| 21 | Captain Dale H. Noyd - convicted by a General Court-Martial of refusing to obey an order to train pilots for Vietnam asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to find that he properly claimed conscientious objection to the Vietnam war as an "ethical humanist." | |||
| 23 | Army announces plans to transfer Joe Miles from Fort Bragg to Alaska | Fort Bragg | ||
| 28 | Airman 1/c Larry Friedberg and Sgt. Rossarie Bisson arrested for distributing leaflets announcing May 31 anti-war march in Dayton. | Wright-Patterson AFB | ||
| 31 | Pfc. Robert Bower charged with "unauthorized" distribution of antiwar literature. | Fort Hood | ||
| 1970 | ||||
| n.d. | UFO coffee house closed down. | Columbia | ||
| 6 | Lt. (jg) David Borst (Naval conscientious objector) sentenced to dismissal at a general court martial | Mare Island | ||
| 8 | Sp/4 George Lollis (member of GIs-WACs United and editor of Left Face) discharged 18 months early. | Fort McClellan | ||
| 9 | 2nd Lt. James Klimaski punitively transferred to Fort Lewis after filing for CO status. | Fort Bragg | ||
| 14 | Bill Drosbaugh and Robert Green accused of "conspiracy to promote disloyalty and disaffection among the crew by circulating a leaflet protesting the war in Southeast Asia." | USS Isle Royale | ||
| 19 | Quakerhouse firebombed | Fayetteville | ||
| 21 | Jane Fonda and Mark Lane expelled from the base. | Fort Meade | ||
| 1971 | ||||
| 5 | Riot Control units of 82nd Airborne deployed to Washington DC to "preserve law andlorder"as 50,000 antiwar demonstrators gather in the Capitol to "Stop the Government" in protest of Indochina War | |||
| 9 | Lt. Rory Sutton kicked out of Army for wearing black armband in support of "Stop the Government" demonstrations in Washington DC on May 5 | Long Binh, Vietnam | ||
| 15 | Pvt. Billy Dean Smith placed in solitary confinement, while awaiting trial for the fragging of two white officers in Bien Hoa | Fort Ord | ||
| 17 | 6 WACs discharged for participating ih on-post protesting racism in the military | Fort Meade | ||
| 21 | Pvt. Ed Jurenas (editor of Arctic Arsenal) relieved of his duties. | Fort Greeley | ||
| 23 | Six black soldiers arrested for sabotaging a helicopter and breaking into an armory. | |||
| 1972 | ||||
| 12 | GI Center raided. | Clark AFB | ||
| 1973 | ||||
| 23 | The commandant of Third Marine Div issues orders that "no member of this command will engage or participate in picketing, demonstrations, sit-ins, political speeches, and similar activity ... anywhere in a foreign country refgardless of uniform or duty status, unless prior command approval is obtained." | |||
| 25 | Pfc Michael Scanlon arrrsted for handing out copies of Han-Sen Free Press | Kin, Okinawa | ||
| 26 | Lance Corporal William Browen and PFC John Botsford arrested for soliciting signatures on a petition addressed to Congress | Kin, Okinawa | ||
| 29 | Jury selection for trial of Pat Chenoweth begins | Travis AFB | ||
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Timeline for May 1965 - 1974
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