Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam records, 1962-1979

Creator:: Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam
Extent:: 22 boxes (22 boxes and two 16mm films in flatbox 815)
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: Correspondence, memoranda, lists, announcements, petitions, legal briefs, proofs, photographs, motion picture films, clippings, and printed materials. These files of Joseph Crown reflect activities in the peace movement, lobbying with members of Congress, trips to peace conferences in Stockholm, Grenoble, and Toronto, a trip to Hanoi in 1972, and interest in the movement to impeach President Nixon. Correspondents include Henry Steele Commager, J.W. Fulbright, Edward M. Kennedy, George McGovern, Wayne Morse, and U Thant.
Biographical / historical:: Organized in 1965 by Joseph Harold Crown (1907- ; Columbia University B.A., 1927), a tax lawyer, to promote an end to the American involvement in the Vietnam conflict. The Committee, which included Wayne Morse, Carey McWilliams, Philip C. Jessup, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Quincy Wright, was dissolved in 1973.

Acquisition information:: Source of acquisition--Crown, Joseph H. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1982. Accession number--M-82.
Processing information:: Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.
Accruals:: Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Physical / technical requirements:: Material base and configuration--Motion picture film (2 reels)
Rules or conventions:: appm

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