Witness to the Revolution by Clara Bingham

Author:Clara Bingham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

MICHAEL UHL

Whether we were in Duluth or Richmond or Philadelphia or Los Angeles, we were always with veterans who were pissed enough about the war that they were willing to go before TV cameras and reporters and tell them about what they had witnessed and experienced in Vietnam, and it always had to do with an atrocity—they were narrating their atrocities.

I gave my own testimony publicly on my twenty-sixth birthday. It was April 14, 1970, and we had a joint press conference in New York and Los Angeles. I was nervous, but I just told my stories. My testimony appeared in articles in the New York papers. There was an article in The New York Times, Daily News, and New York Post. At CCI we were constantly having our success recognized by the fourth estate as legitimate news, and we just got tons and tons of publicity, adding to whatever else was going on in the antiwar movement. So right from the start, I could see that my two comrades, Jeremy [Rifkin] and Tod [Ensign], were natural publicists. Our primary technique in organizing these commissions all over the country was having guys step forward, and always making sure that to the best of our ability we were dealing with real veterans. We always had people verify their bona fides by showing us their discharge papers and by interviewing them first. So we went around and organized these events where vets could tell their stories directly in their own words to the American people, through the good offices of the media.

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