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 …
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Fort Hood Three Has Prison Terms Lowered
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
Fort Hood GIs Revolt
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
KILLEEN, TEXAS—More than 160 black soldiers from Fort Hood refused to take part in riot control operations in Chicago. // Share this on…
ACLU Honors Hart and Sachs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 2, December 2-16, 1965
Senator Philip A. Hart and Theodore Sachs were recipients of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Annual Bill of Rights Award on Saturday evening, December 4. The Award was made during the intermission of the show “VOICES, Inc.”, the musical production …
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 …
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 …
Black GIs Convicted
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
FORT HOOD, Tex.—A court-martial found five black soldiers, including two Detroiters, guilty of refusing to obey an order growing out of a demonstration against possible anti-riot duty at the Democratic National Convention. The specific charge was failing to report for …
Seditious Children
by Mycle
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
We will meet at the midnight hour past the tree stump forest. We will be sneaky slinkies and walky- talkies. Robin Hood’s woods would be so proud. Merry boys and girls sing // Share this on…
Supreme Court to Hear GIs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
The first GIs to publicly refuse to go to Vietnam, known as the Fort Hood Three, asked the Supreme Court to hear their suit against the war, and against the government’s right to send them to Vietnam. Jimmy Johnson, 21, …
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. // Share this on…
Gentrification
by Tolbert Small
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Quick call the police; The Negroes are barbecuing at the lake. Quick call the police; The Negroes are drumming too loud Quick call the cops The colored choir is singing too loud. Quick call the cops That pregnant Negro’s belly …
The People Own the City in Detroit Uprising
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“Light My Fire” rises through the radio ranks for weeks and, when it hits number one on the stations, the people respond and burn the city down. Or play Archie Shepp’s “Fire Music” album as background music for the Detroit …
Cops Disciplined
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
For once it appears that it pays to be black. At least the sons of prominent black ministers and politicians. The Detroit Police Department actually disciplined several of it’s men for their drunken and cowardly beatings of several black youths …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 37, September 1-15, 1967
One of the biggest problems of “rebuilding Detroit” after the July 23 rebellion will be the attitudes and actions of the very powerful “white liberal” leadership in our community. // Share this on…
G.I. Coffee Houses for Peace
by Harvey Stone
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
FORT HOOD, TEXAS July 12 (LNS)—The war in Vietnam is now the longest war in America’s violent history. In addition to the genocide being committed against the Vietnamese, thousands upon thousands of American G.I.’s have been killed or wounded. But …
American Servicemen’s Union
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
The following interview with American Servicemen’s Union (ASU) chairman Pvt. Andrew Stapp (Ret.) was conducted by Fifth Estate staffer Dena Clamage. // Share this on…
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Indict Cops A Federal indictment was returned May 3 charging three suspended Detroit cops and a private guard with violating the civil rights of ten persons during last summer’s uprising. // Share this on…
Students Plan Viet Summer Action
by Lissa Matross
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
From Michigan Daily—An estimated 600 students from 100 high schools and colleges across the nation overwhelmingly approved a resolution here Sunday calling for a nationwide Vietnam referendum on campuses next fall. The students took part in a two-day Student Mobilization …
GI Resister Speaks Out at Fifth Estate Benefit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“I’d rather face the uncertainty of opposing the war and going AWOL than face the certainty of being shipped and fighting in a war that I am against. // Share this on…
Anti-War GIs Face Trial, Court Martial
by Louie Collins
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Can the Army brass deny a GI his constitutional rights to hold and express ideas differing from those held by the administration in Washington—including ideas in direct opposition to the Vietnam war? // Share this on…
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 …