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Victory at Fort Dix
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
FORT DIX, N.J.—The court-martial of Pvt. Terry Klug is over. He is the GI who the Ft. Dix brass had singled out as the “ringleader” in the now famous stockade rebellion on that base last June. The surprise verdict: Not …
Fort Dix Trial
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
FORT DIX, N.J. (LNS)—The Army has decided to take three years of Jeffrey Russell’s life. “It’s a total fraud,” says one establishment reporter.
Fort Dix Riot Trial Starts
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
But in two days of court martial proceedings (Nov. 4 and 5), the Army has been able to get only two scared young GIs—both of whom admit having been threatened with charges of their own if they refused to help …
Dix Coffee House Evicted
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
WRIGHTSTOWN (LNS)—The GI movement at Ft. Dix is the largest and most advanced in the country, and this is due partly to the Coffeehouse for GIs in Wrightstown. The organizing efforts of the Coffeehouse bring hundreds of GIs every week …
Ft. Dix Erupts
by Mike Kaufman
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
FORT DIX, N.J. Oct 12—Thousands of demonstrators, marching under the banners of many anti-war and militant groups, were turned back by tear gas as they marched onto the mammoth military reservation.
Fort Dix Stockade
by Sheila Ryan
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Editors’ Note: The following article was written last April by LNS staffer Sheila Ryan. The deplorable conditions she describes led to a massive stockade revolt at the base in June which was put down with severe brutality. Many of the …
Support for Dix 38
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS)—Four hundred demonstrators massed in front of Penn Station August 2 to support 38 Fort Dix, N.J. GIs who face court-martials for having participated in a stockade uprising.
Dix Brass Plot Vengeance
by Bob Heilbroner
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS)—The Army is planning a heavy vengeance for the June 5 rebellion of over 150 GIs imprisoned in the Ft. Dix stockade. [See “Army Stockades Blow,” FE #84, July 24-August 6, 1969.]
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
Nothing demonstrates more clearly the intertwined nature of politics and the new music than a concert that I had the good fortune to be able to attend over the recent holidays. The concert was in New York’s Village Theatre, and …
Deee-Troit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
WABX DJs Larry Miller and Dave Dixon both emphatically deny the report of last issue that they came to blows over station policy. “The real miracle of the station is how well we work together,” Miller said. Sorry fellas, we …
Recorders Court Jury Fraud Exposed
by Sam Stark
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
Accused persons in Detroit Recorder’s Court have been tried and, in many cases, found guilty by juries of which Blacks, other minority group members, Southern-born, foreign-born, working-class people, ADC mothers, students, bearded males, and persons convicted of moving traffic violations …
Anti-War Soldier’s Hearing Begins
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
The Fort Hood Three Defense Committee announced that civil liberties attorneys Stanley Faulkner and Selma Samols went before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Dec. 13, to argue once again, in the case of Pvt. Robert …
Blues Bands Revived in the Motor City
by Wilson Lindsey
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
In the last few months blues has become very popular with the white coffee house crowds. This blues is a kind of washed out version of what was popular during the forties and early fifties when now familiar names like …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
A few weeks ago the New Yorker’s man in jazz, Whitney Balliett, went out to the Coast to catch the Monterey Festival. While he was there he spoke with some of the “workers’ aristocracy” of jazz, the white musicians who …
GI Caucus
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
A caucus of anti-war GIs meeting at the Feb. 15 Student Mobilization Committee conference in Cleveland decided to call for a national anti-war GI meeting. GIs at the conference represented bases from Alaska to Texas, and from Ft. Dix, N.J. …
Deee-Troit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
It may take two or three years, but beware: Mayor Gribbs has let it be known that he is not adverse to a $1.00 admission fee to the Detroit Zoo, along with plans to raise the Sunday parking fee to …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURSDAY, MAY 28 ROMAN POLANSKI’S “Fearless Vampire Killers” with Sharon Tate in color, and f.w. Murnau’s “Nosferatu,” loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Two bloody chiller killers. There is a $1 donation to go to …
Warfare 1970
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“a very great revolutionary force latent in the American people” —Peking Radio, May 9 President Nixon’s announcement of the invasion of Cambodia effectively implemented the old SDS slogan “Bring the War Home!” Millions of people joined the revolutionary struggle, striking …
Armed Farces Day
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
MONTEREY, Calif. (LNS) — In over a dozen actions at military bases across the country on May 16, thousands of anti-war soldiers and civilians marched and rallied against the traditional celebration of Armed Forces Day.