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In five pages this paper examines how the Midwest campus protests opposing the Vietnam War were as dynamic as anyplace else during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.
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-which led the opposition to the Vietnam war, which forced the retirement of President Johnson, which are forcing the pace of our present withdrawal from Vietnam, which are leading the
battle against the great corporations on the issue of pollution, and which at the last Congressional elections retired a score or more of the more egregious time- servers, military sycophants
and hawks."1 The Vietnam War was an important turning point in American history. Following on the heels of the civil rights movement, the unpopular war galvanized teens and
college students alike to take a more active role in society and government policymaking. If young men were going to be drafted to fight a war they did not
believe in, they felt fully justified in taking full advantage of the constitutional right to freedom of speech. By the mid-1960s, campus riots were becoming more frequent and often
found their way into Americas living rooms on evening news broadcasts. But while the East and West protests in Columbia and Berkeley garnered the lions share of media attention,
it was the impassioned commitment on campuses in the Midwest in which the antiwar movement took root among the college establishment. Author Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was
the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson made the fateful decision to escalate the bombing of
North Vietnam. The first notable campus demonstration was the University of Michigan teach-in- of March 24 and 25.3 This was the first of several teach-in protests throughout the
Midwest and the rest of the United States opposing the Presidents aggressive military actions. As a result, LBJ began dispatching "truth squads" to counter the teach-in criticisms of American
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