History

AMRC Bombing 1970
Article about August 24, 1970 bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Center on the U-Wisconsin campus in Madison. Published in Liberation News Service (LNS) #285, September 2, 1970; reprinted by New Liberation News Service in 1992. Includes statement by the New Year's Gang, which claimed responsibility for the bombing; and a poem by Todd Gitlin, then of LNS.

Committee
Authorized reproduction of "Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300" by Dr. John Coleman. Parts 01 through 24.

JFK Archive
On the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

New Left Review Dies
Written by 12 resigning editorial members of the NLR, describes the events preceding their resignation and the resignation of 7 others. Nineteen out of 27 editorial board members of the Review (associated with Verso Press) resigned in response to "what amounted to a boardroom coup" by former editors of the Review.

NSA Charter
Text of the October 24, 1952 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett signed by President Harry Truman directing establishment of the National Security Agency.

Port of Chicago Blast
Notes from an August 12, 1992 interview with Peter Vogel on his research into the possibility that the July 17, 1944 Port of Chicago explosion could have been atomic. Includes some notes on atomic bombs.(source unknown) To read more about the blast and the men who were killed by it, try Robert Allen's book, The Port Chicago Mutiny.


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