The Year the War Came Home
Inter Press Service (IPS), May 14, 2008
On this 40th anniversary of 1968, the year that for the United States was the apogee of opposition to the war in Vietnam, two new Off Broadway plays explore divergent ways that U.S. citizens protested — and ponder the best way to contest a senseless war.
“The Conscientious Objector” by Michael Murphy describes the personal and political conflict faced by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. over his decision to speak out publicly against the war.
“Something You Did” by Willy Holtzman examines the decision of a stand-in for Kathy Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, to “bring the war home” by participating in a violent action that left a bystander dead.
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