1. James Reston, Jr., The Amnesty of John David Herndon, McGraw Hill 1973. Henceforth Reston. The quote is from Reston’s narrative, and is a paraphrase of sentiments expressed over several months and several letters by Paris based draft resister Joe Heflin.
2. Cornell collection, Box 1. 3. Reston. 4. Ibid. 5. Of the “2.5 million young American enlisted men who served in Vietnam... from the 27 million men who came of draft age during the war... roughly 80 percent came from working class and poor backgrounds.” Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers & Veterans. The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. 6. There is an account of this event in Vietnam Awakening. 7. Tod tells a funny story.. 8. New Republic, October 9, 1971. 9. Reston. 10. See, for example, Newsweek, January 17, 1972, which ran a cover story, “Amnesty for War Exiles. Which side needs the pardon?” 11. I calculate, off hand, that between 1970 and 1979, I visited Paris ten times. During those years, the Musee de l’Orangerie remained open, and home to a small, but enchanting collection of impressionist canvases. 12. Cornell collection, Box 1. 13. ID Joyce Johnson, successful novelist, memoir of Kerouac... 14. Ibid. 15. Personal papers. 16. “New Group Will Assist Deserters,” New York Post, February 3, 1972; “Map Test Trial of Deserters,” New York Daily News, February 4 1972; “Self-retired veterans’ form an organization,” by Gene Tournour, The Daily World, February 4, 1972. 17. Taken from the SAFE RETURN brochure. Cornell collection, Box 8. 18. Reston. |
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