Allyn Rickett, mentioned earlier in this report, and Humphrey Tonkin, who would later become the Director of the Office of International Programs in 1977. In the Vietnam Week Committee Demonstration in 1968, forty-six faculty members participated including W. Only a little more than a week prior, 1,200 people had attended a teach-in in Irvine Auditorium, which featured Representative George Brown (a Democrat from California) “call for American acceptance of “self-determination” by the people of South Vietnam.” From April 8 to April 15, 1967, Vietnam Week was held on campus, with events including teach-ins by members of the Penn faculty, and ended with a mass march and rally at the United Nations. Posters appeared on the Penn campus in April 1965 for students to join the Washington March against the Vietnam War, which would occur on April 17. A more complete story of student activism against the Vietnam War at the University of Pennsylvania would be a worthy subject in itself for another report. This report can not seek to cover all of the opposition that occurred on the Penn campus, and there extensive information on it in the University Archives, but it does seek to give a general overview of it. The University of Pennsylvania had a large amount of student activism – as much, if not more, than many of the other college campuses in the United States. College campuses are best known for their opposition to the Vietnam War, mostly beginning in 1964. The United States entered the war in 1964 and peace talks began in 1968, followed by President Richard Nixon’s “Vietnamization,” with the total withdrawal of United States personnel in 1975, during the fall of Saigon. The Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1975.
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