10.3: Raymond Anthony Mungo: Anti-War Speech (1967)

Paired Sources from U.S. History, 1877-present
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Abstract

Raymond Mungo was a student leader at Boston College when he gave this speech at an anti-war rally on Boston Common. He would go on to be a journalist and a leader in the back-to-the-land movement, one of many subgroups of the larger 1960s counterculture dedicated to reversing the excesses of the modern world. This particular speech is no different than many other speeches given at many other anti-war rallies of the Vietnam era, but the transcript of this one ended up in the U.S. National Archives because it was recorded without his knowledge by the Boston Police Department. In the speech, Mungo told the crowd that he was resisting the draft, which meant that the police tape of the speech could have been used as evidence for his prosecution.

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