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This multi-media resource list, Christian revolutionary perspective Foley, Michael S. Confronting compiled by Susan Conlon of on America in the early 70s. the War Machine: Draft the Princeton Public Library in Resistance during the Vietnam partnership with the American Carroll, James. An American War. Chapel Hill: University of Library Association, provides a Requiem: God, My Father, and North Carolina Press, 2003. range of perspectives on the the War that Came Between Us. Michael Foley tells the story of draft issues raised by the upcoming Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., resistance, the cutting edge of the P.O.V. documentary “The 1996. A social history of the protest antiwar movement at the height of Camden 28” that premieres on by United States citizens against the war's escalation. Unlike so- September 11th, 2007 at 10 PM the Vietnam War, from the days of called draft dodgers, who evaded (check local listings at the first American involvement in the draft by leaving the country or www.pbs.org/pov/). Vietnam in the early 1960s through by securing a draft deferment by the 1970s. fraudulent means, draft resisters How far would you go to stop a openly defied draft laws by burning war? "The Camden 28" recalls a De Benedetti, Charles, and or turning in their draft cards. 1971 raid on a Camden, N.J., draft Chatfield, Charles. An American board office by "Catholic Left" Ordeal: the Antiwar Movement Gillete, Howard Jr. Camden activists protesting the Vietnam War of the Vietnam Era. Syracuse, After the Fall: Decline and and its effects on urban America. NY: Syracuse University Press, Renewal in a Post-Industrial Arrested on site in a clearly planned 1990. Examines the antiwar City (Politics and Culture in sting, the protesters included four movement from its beginnings in Modern America). Philadelphia: Catholic priests, a Lutheran the mid-50s to issues such as Black University of Pennsylvania minister, and 23 others. "The equality and the Vietnam War Press, new ed, 2006. Looking at Camden 28" reveals the story the cumulative effects of urban behind the arrests — a provocative Dorwart, Jeffrey M. Camden decline in the classic post-industrial tale of government intrigue and County, New Jersey: the Making city of Camden, New Jersey, personal betrayal — and the of a Metropolitan Community, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., ensuing legal battle, which Supreme 1626-2000. New Brunswick, NJ: probes the interaction of politics, Court Justice William Brennan called Rutgers University Press, 2001. economic restructuring, and racial "one of the great trials of the 20th Jeffrey M. Dorwart chronicles more bias to evaluate contemporary century." Thirty-five years later, the than three centuries of Camden efforts at revitalization. participants take stock of the County history, covering Camden's motives, fears, and costs of their earliest days as a Native American Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon. Hell activism — and its relevance to settlement, the county's important No, We Won’t Go!: Resisting the America today. roles in the Revolutionary and Civil Draft During the Vietnam War. Wars, Camden City's booms and New York: Viking, 1991. A ______busts, the county's increasing collection of oral histories reflecting ADULT NONFICTION suburbanization, and current inner- resistance to the Vietnam War draft. city revitalization efforts. Baskir, Lawrence M. and Harris, David. Our War: What Strauss, William A. Chance and Doyle, Michael. It’s a Terrible We Did in Vietnam and What it Circumstance: The Draft, the Day: Thanks be to God. Camden, Did to Us. New York: Times War, and the Vietnam NJ: Camden Housing, 2003. Book, 1996. David Harris explores Generation. New York: Knopf, A collection of letters of prose and the Vietnam War generation 1978. A study done by a former poetry written by Msgr. Michael through his experiences as a former staff member of President Ford’s Doyle during his many years of antiwar activist who went to prison Clemency Board that includes a witnessing urban life in Waterfront instead of serving in the U.S. statistical portrait of the Vietnam South, Camden, NJ. military in 1960s. War generation and the men who were of draft age from between Elmer, Jerry. Felon for Peace: Mollin, Marian. Radical Pacifism 1964-1973. the Memoir of a Vietnam-Era in Modern America Draft Resister. Nashville: Egalitarianism and Protest. Berrigan, Daniel. The Trial of the Vanderbilt University Press, Philadelphia: University of Catonsville Nine. New York: 2005. At the height of the Vietnam Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Fordham University Press, 2004. War, Jerry Elmer committed his first Emphasizing the actions undertaken Reissued with additional materials felony by refusing to register for the by militant activists, the author by Robin Anderson and James draft. Over the next 20 years, using illuminates the complex relationship Marsh. Drawing on court nonviolent tactics, Jerry worked for between gender, race, activism, transcripts, this is Berrigan’s peace, justice, and the and political culture, identifying account of the trial of nine antiwar environment. Here, he gives us his critical factors that simultaneously activists. lifetime of lessons in nonviolent hindered and facilitated grassroots protest as an example for all who efforts at social and political Berrigan, Phillip. Prison wish to make a positive difference change. Journals of a Priest today. Revolutionary. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. A collection of Father Berrigan’s writings. Berrigan shares his

Delve Deeper into “The Camden 28” A film by Anthony Giacchino

Polner, Murray and Jim O’Grady. and the character Tim, as these Streissguth, Thomas. Clay V. Disarmed and Dangerous: the young men carry the emotional United States and How Radical Lives and Times of weight of their lives to war in Muhammad Ali Fought the Draft: Daniel and Philip Berrigan. Vietnam, in a patchwork account of Debating Supreme Court Boulder, CO: Westview Press, a modern journey into the heart of Decision. Berkeley Heights, NJ: 1998. A biography of the Berrigan darkness. Enslow Publishers, 2006. brothers that chronicles their Examines how Ali's case got to the involvement in the 1960s antiwar ______Supreme Court and how the Court protest and their relationship with NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER made its decision. Streissguth one another. READERS explores the topic of conscientious objectors, those who refuse to fight Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, Caputo, Philip. 10,000 Days of in wars for reasons of religion or and Civil Disobedience. New Thunder: a History of the conscience, as well as opposition to York: Penquin, 1983. Vietnam War. New York: war throughout history. The book Thoreau's classic essays on the Atheneum Books for Young also includes how to conduct a moot virtues of self-reliance and Readers, 2005. Pulitzer Prize- court-a mock judicial proceeding- individual freedom. “On The Duty Of winning journalist Philip Caputo that will help students understand Civil Disobedience” is the classic writes about the Vietnam War for the case. protest against government's young readers in this book, from interference with individual liberty, the first stirrings of unrest in Wormser, Richard L. Three and is considered one of the most Vietnam under French colonial rule, Faces of Vietnam. New York: F. famous essays ever written. to American intervention, to the Watts, 1993. Examines the battle at Hamburger Hill, to the Tet Vietnam War from the perspectives ______Offensive, to the fall of Saigon. of antiwar protesters, the ADULT FICTION Included are personal anecdotes Vietnamese people, and the from soldiers and civilians, as well American soldiers who fought in the Coming to Terms: American as profiles and accounts of the war. Plays & the Vietnam War; actions of many historical introduction by James Reston, luminaries, and photographs and Jr. New York: Theatre key campaign and battlefield maps. FICTION FOR YOUNGER Communications Group, 1985. READERS Streamers by David Rabe; Botticelli Dowswell, Paul. The Vietnam by Terrence McNally; How I got War. Milwaukee, WI: World Brown, Don. Our Time on the That Story by Amlin Gray; Medal of Almanac Library, 2002. Examines River. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Honor Rag by Tom Cole; the history of conflict in Vietnam, Co., 2003. Two brothers take a Moonchildren by Michael Weller; traces the United States river trip by canoe in advance of the Still life by Emily Mann; Strange involvement from the early 1960s elder brother being shipped out to Snow by Stephen Metcalfe. through 1975, and discusses the Vietnam. consequences of the war on both Duncan, David James. The the United States and Vietnam. Couloumbis, Audrey. Summer’s Brothers K. New York : End. New York: G.P. Putnam's Doubleday, 1992. The story traces Hauptly, Denis J. In Vietnam. Sons, 2005. Three teenaged a family's fate from the beginning of New York: Atheneum, 1985. cousins worry about their uncle who the Eisenhower years through the Discusses the turbulent history of is missing in Vietnam, their traumas of Vietnam. One son Vietnam from the Chinese invasion brothers--the one who was drafted becomes an atheist and draft 2000 years ago through the United and the two who are dodging the resister; another immerses himself States' involvement during the draft - and the effects of their in Eastern religions, while the third 1960s. absence on the four generations of the children, ends up in gathered at the family farm in the Southeast Asia. Hay, Jeff. The Greenhaven summer of 1965. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam. Mailer, Norman. Why Are We in San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Qualey, Marsha. Too Big a Vietnam? Picador; 1st Picador Press, 2004. An alphabetical Storm. New York: Dial Books, USA Ed edition (August 5, presentation of definitions and 2004. When serious worrier Brady 2000). Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") descriptions of terms and events of Callahan meets vivacious Sally Jethroe, Texas's most precocious the Vietnam War. Cooper, daughter of a wealthy teenager, on the eve of his Minnesota family, they develop a departure to fight in Vietnam, this Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas close friendship that helps they both story of a hunting trip in Alaska is Hoobler. Vietnam, Why We grow and survive during the both entertaining and profoundly Fought: an Illustrated History. turbulent Vietnam War era. thoughtful. New York: Knopt; distributed by Random House, 1990. Examines Qualey, Marsha. Come in from O’Brien, Tim. The Things They the history of Vietnam's relations the Cold. Boston: Houghton Carried: A Work of Fiction. with other nations, the involvement Mifflin, 1994. The Vietnam War Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. of the United States in the conflict, protest movement brings together Fictional work depicts the men of and the effects of the war. two Minnesota teenagers. Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa,

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White, Ellen Emerson. Where save Claude from Vietnam sets in have all the flowers gone?: The motion a bizarre twist of fate ... Diary of Molly Mackenzie with shocking consequences. Flaherty. New York : Scholastic, www.amazon.com 2002. In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in “In the Year of the Pig.” A film Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly by Emile de Antonio. Home records in her diary how she misses Vision Entertainment, 2005. her brother, volunteers at a Produced at the height of Vietnam Veterans' Administration Hospital, War, Emile de Antonio's Oscar and tries to make sense of the war nominated 1968 documentary in Vietnam and the tumultuous chronicles the war's historical roots. events in the United States. The savage and horrific images Includes historical notes. speak for themselves in perhaps the most controversial film of de ______Antonio's career. www.amazon.com FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES “The Trial of the Catonsville “Alice’s Restaurant.” A film by Nine.” A film by Gordon Arthur Penn, MGM Home Davidson. Axon Video,1972. This Entertainment, Inc., 2001. film documents the trial of a group 1969. Twenty-two year-old Arlo of anti-Vietnam War protesters who Guthrie’s journey to find a place for raided the offices of the draft board himself and his music includes an in Catonsville, Maryland, and incident at Alice's Restaurant that burned some of the files in May plays a pivotal role in Arlo's 1968. www.amazon.com avoidance of the draft. www.amazon.com “Winter Soldier.” Winterfilm, 2006; Originally released in “Kim's Story: the Road from 1972. Vietnam.” A film by Shelley Winter Soldier documents the Saywell. Bishari Film "Winter Soldier Investigation" Productions Inc.; Canadian conducted by Vietnam Veterans Broadcasting Corporation.; Against the War (VVAW) in Detroit, Telefilm Canada.; First Michigan in the winter of 1971. A Run/Icarus Films. call went out from VVAW to First Run/Icarus Films, 1997. veterans all over the country to This is the story of Kim Phuc, who speak out. At the investigation, was photographed as a nine year over 125 veterans representing old girl running naked down a road every major combat unit to see in Vietnam, screaming in agony action in Vietnam gave eye-witness from napalm burns. Now, in order testimony to war crimes and to confront her past, Kim comes to atrocities they either participated in America on a remarkable odyssey or witnessed. to Washington's Vietnam War http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/ Memorial wall, as part of Veterans Day ceremonies. There she makes it clear that her mission is one of forgiveness and a wider healing. http://www.frif.com/cat97/k- o/kim_phuc.html

“Hair.” A film by Milos Forman. United Artists, Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment;, 1999. Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort to