Mime Troop in Detroit For Minstrel Show

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Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966

The San Francisco Mime Troupe, fresh from a successful ten months run in Northern California, and as a part of their nationwide tour, will bring its current production, “A MINSTREL SHOW/OR: ‘CIVIL RIGHTS IN A CRACKER BARREL’ ” to the …

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November 5-7 Set for International Peace Protest

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Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966

A national conference was held in Cleveland Sept. 9-10 to plan for a united nationwide peace action this fall. The conference was called by the University Circle Teach-In Committee of Cleveland, with the assistance of the Inter-University Committee. The meeting …

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15, October 1-15, 1966

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College Freshmen 1-A

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Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966

Colonel Arthur Holmes, Director of the Selective Service System for the State of Michigan, announced that at his order, all male students from Michigan now entering their Freshman year of college will automatically be classified I-A by their local draft …

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City Asked to Pay in Socialists’ Shooting

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Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966

The May 16, 1966, murder of a former Wayne State University student, Leo Bernard, and the near-fatal shooting of two others, was reviewed last week by attorney Ernest Goodman who filed a petition with Detroit Common Council requesting funds for …

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Staff

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Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966

EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR: Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Cathy West STAFF: Marlene Tyre, Frank Dedenbach, etc. MEMBER: U.P.S. [Underground Press Syndicate]

Fort Hood 3 Found Guilty

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Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966

The Fort Hood Three—the three GI’s who refused to serve in Vietnam—were tried last week by a court martial board and found guilty. Pvt. Dennis Moras received a three year sentence at hard labor and Pvt. David Samas and PFC …

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The Film Phantasmagoria

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Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966

WHILE BRAVE MEN DIE had its Detroit premier on Saturday September 10. Sharing the bill at lower DeRoy Auditorium was OPERATION ABOLITION, a right-wing expose of communists in the peace movement. As expected, the entire evening of film phantasmagoria was …

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Inciting A Riot

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Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966

On August 9-12 a fantasy now known as the “East Side Riot” was staged by the Detroit Police with the assistance of the prosecutor’s office, city government and the press. The major villain of the drama was Alvin Harrison, Director …

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14, September 15, 1966

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