Viet Report January 1968 Emergency News Bulletin Vietnamese History Eyewitness

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Viet Report January 1968 Emergency News Bulletin Vietnamese History Eyewitness .
Carol Brightman w
hile working as a graduate assistant in English at New York University in 1965, with Joh McDermott founded
Viet-Report
. The periodical was intended to fight against misinformation during the Vietnam War
. It was
designed to fuel the anti-war teach-ins on college campuses.  Brightman and McDermott were both tall, blonde, well-groomed — not at all the cartoon stereotype of the beatnik antiwar activist.  Brightman, the chief editor, had a B.A. from Vassar and an M.A. from the University of Chicago — not exactly radical hotbeds, either of them.  John was a bit older and was developing into a perpetual graduate student at Columbia in philosophy; he looked very scholarly and smoked a pipe.  The business plan of the magazine was to produce informational articles about the Vietnam war, to print it in an inexpensive format, and to distribute it in bulk to antiwar groups on college campuses for them to hand out in connection with campus antiwar teach-ins.  Teach-ins were a hybrid of instruction and demonstration.  Staged in a public area of campus, they would begin with lectures and speeches, including questions and discussions, and might then develop into a march, a sit-in, an occupation of a campus building, or some other direct action.  Some of the teach-ins were small, with only dozens attending; others involved thousands of students.
Since none of the magazine staff were paid and we printed on the cheapest newsprint bound with staples, expenses were low.  We were able to sell it for six cents a copy for quantities of over one thousand.  The University Committee to Protest the War in Vietnam — a multi-campus coalition mostly of faculty — put up some startup funds, and there were donations by a handful of individuals including the Pediatrician Benjamin Spock.
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