Listed as sponsors and/or speakers on both are Senator's George McGovern ( Democrat-South Dakota) and Edmund Muskie (Democrat-Maine), Congressman John D. Conyers, Jr. (Democrat-Michigan), Paul O' Dwyer unsuccessful Democratic senate candidate from New York, Senator Allard K. Lowenstein (Democrat-New York) ,Congress Woman Della Abzug (Democrat-New York), and actress Jane Fonda, actor Donald Sutherland, and U.S. Navy veteran John F. Kerry. The Honorary VVAW Commander was BG (US Army Ret.) Hugh B. Hester a decorated WW-I & II veteran who after his retirement in 1951 became very sympathetic to and outspoken for Marxist causes. |
