Writers and Editors War Tax Protest Pledge Signers [January 30, 1968]

Historical Military

Full page ad taken out in the New York Post with over 70 signers vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War * Missing: Robert Duncan * Leslie Fielder * Edward S. Herman * Staughton Lynd * Milton Mayer * Dwight Macdonald * Jackson Mac Low * Peter Matthiessen * Ed McClanahan * Carl Oglesby * Tillie Olsen * Grace Paley * Kirkpatrick Sale * Peter Dale Scott * Lew Welch * John Wieners

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Allen Ginsberg

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Thomas Pynchon

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Terry Southern

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Todd Gitlin

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Ralph Ginzburg

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Noam Chomsky

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Gloria Steinem

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Betty Friedan

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Susan Sontag

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Norman Mailer

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Robert Bly

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Paul Goodman

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Norman Thomas

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Robert Creeley

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James Baldwin

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Hunter S. Thompson

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Dr. Benjamin Spock

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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David Dellinger

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Paul Krassner

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