Vintage 1968 Original Flyer "Alternatives To Resistance" Buffalo Nine Buffalo Draft Resistance Union One Of A Kind

Vintage 1968 Original Flyer "Alternatives To Resistance" Buffalo Nine Buffalo Draft Resistance Union One Of A Kind

We lived in Niagara Falls at the time. My father, Martin L. Charles, M. D. was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Medical College, University of Buffalo and Corporate Medical Director of The Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N.Y. He was on campus when this flyer was handed out.

The Buffalo Nine was a group of nine Vietnam War protesters arrested together on August 19, 1968, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Buffalo, New York.

Bruce Beyer, a leader of the Buffalo Draft Resistance Union, was arrested, as were seven others, on charges including draft evasion and assaulting an officer. Others arrested included prominent campus radicals Carl Kronberg and Jerry Gross. A later investigation led them to arrest Students for a Democratic Society organizer Bill Yates.

The Nine:
Bruce Cline, organizer, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union
Ray Malak, Chairman of the Research Action Committee of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Vietnam veteran
Thomas O'Connell, Vietnam veteran
Bruce Beyer, organizer, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union
James McGlynn, Vietnam veteran
William Berry, organizer, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union
Carl Kronberg, organizer, Peace and Freedom Party

Jerry Gross, Chairman of Youth Against War and Fascism (YAWF) and Martin Sostre Defense Committee
William Yates, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS):
"What started out as a peaceful, non-violent demonstration against the war and the Selective Service System, ended in a violent fist-swinging melee. I maintain to this day that this was precisely what the government had in mind when it sent thirty-two police officers to arrest two draft resisters ..." (Bruce Beyer).

I have tried at length to google the address on the base of the flyer as to weather Bruce Beyer or William Berry lived there.

This is a piece of history that is truly museum quality. Such a tumultuous time is America's history. This piece of paper is being listed for historic value and certainly we are not rendering our own opinion on this subject matter.

Suitable for framing.

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