PFC James Johnson, Pvt. David Samas, and Pvt. Dennis Mora, three antiwar GIs court-martialed two months ago refusing to go to Vietnam have been transferred from Ft. Meade, Md., to the federal military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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For Ft. Hood 3, Prison Conditions Improve
by Marlene Tyre
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
The shocking prison treatment of the Fort Hood Three, the three GIs who refused to go to Vietnam, has improved slightly as a result of the publicity of their situation and a flood of letters to government and Army authorities. …
‘Inhuman Treament’ Charged by Families of Fort Hood Three
by Marlene Tyre
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
Last month the Fort Hood Three were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of three years for Mora; and five years for Samas and Johnson. The Fort Hood Three, to perhaps refresh a few memories, are Pvt. Dennis Mora, Pvt. …
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Fort Hood Three Has Prison Terms Lowered
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
As the result of an appeal brought on June 23 of the court-martial of the Fort Hood Three, Pvt. First Class Jimmy Johnson, Pvt. David Samas and Pvt. Dennis Mora, the sentences of Jimmy Johnson and Pvt. David Samas were …
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 …
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.
I will not be used
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
FT. HOOD, Texas (LNS)—Richard Chase, 26, was sentenced to two years hard labor in a Kangaroo Court-Martial here Dec. 20 for refusing to participate in riot control training.
Read All About It!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
“Read All About It!” for this issue consists of those papers put out by and for GIs. It should be obvious from the number of papers existing, especially the ones from army bases, that the opposition within the armed services …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
To the Editors: John Watson and the Fifth Estate are revolutionaries and that’s why they support the Teamster workers. [See “The News Gets Ready,” FE #68, December 12-25, 1968.] Revolutionaries remember 1937 when industrial workers in Flint fought the …
Detroit GI
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Big news, you say, it happens every day. Ask any serviceman. The difference in Bell’s case is that the Army is trying to do a job on him because he refused to go to Chicago during the Democratic Convention last …
GIs Resist the War
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
GIs Resist the WarFort Dix FT. DIX, N.J.—The trials of the Ft. Dix 38 accused of a variety of charges stemming from a stockade rebellion last June are continuing.
Anti-war GIs March
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
WASHINGTON—In August 1968 forty-three GIs at Ft. Hood, Texas refused to go to Chicago for riot duty. Their protest was the first in what has been a long series of anti-war and anti-military protests that have led to the growth …
The Collapse of the Armed Forces
by Robert D. Heinl Jr.
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
FE Note: The article reprinted here first appeared in the Armed Forces Journal, June 7, 1971, and is excerpted here from The Movement Against the War, Ramparts Press, 1972. Col. Heinl’s hawkish military columns were a regular feature in the …
Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
A.F. Kooks The Air Force admitted in a recent hearing that at least three men with dangerous psychiatric problems had been assigned to guard a super-secret nuclear weapons installation at Hamilton Air Force Base, 25 miles south of San Francisco. …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Dear Beautiful People, As I was sitting in Grant Park in Chicago August 28 what to my tear-gassed eyes should appear but a beautiful young girl with a free copy of the Fifth Estate. She handed me a copy with …
Vietnam Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Vietnam Rsesource Page Fifth Estate articles in date order Dr. Norman Pollack Vietnam Fifth Estate #2, December 2-16, 1965 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/2-december-2-16-1965/vietnam/ “Perhaps the biggest mistake many of us make when speaking about Vietnam is that we focus only on Vietnam, and …
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
GIs Form Alliance
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 108, June 25-July 8, 1970
ATLANTA, Ga. (LNS)—Anti-war GIs from around the country got together here over Memorial Day weekend to discuss ways of increasing nationwide cooperation in their struggle against the military machine.
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 …
Brass Boiling over Fort Wayne Exposé
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
The brass at Fort Wayne have taken their revenge for Spec. 4 Jerry Brown’s criticism of induction center medical examinations. Brown was given 36 hours to leave the post after an article appeared in the last issue of this paper …
GI Sues to Stop Viet Transfer
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
(Washington) — Robert Luftig, 22, a soldier from New York City, Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Defense Department from sending him to Vietnam.
Mutiny at the Outposts of Empire
by Rob Blurton
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The original full-length article is online in the Fifth Estate archive; see Issue 346, Summer 1995. As America’s involvement in Vietnam deepened in 1965, political and social turbulence at home reached proportions unimaginable at the beginning. Within two years, the …