"The following is a diary of the training received by a National Guardsman in preparation for the Portland People's Army Jamboree."

n.p. [1970]. 13p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, "Copy for Movement" penned in red on first page. (This copy was sent to the staff of The Movement, a radical newspaper in San Francisco).

States that the author of the diary, a National Guardsman with a conscience who wanted to save lives, sought to let people know the tactics being adopted, "since there is an incredible difference between what the Guardsmen were taught and what the civilians have been told they were taught." Claims that Guardsmen were told that SDS, Black Panthers and White Panthers had formed 'hit squads' to kill them, making excessive force acceptable; Claims that Captain Flye outlined a method of cornering hippies in a park and machine-gunning them; Multnomah County police are said to have been trained in methods of inflicting maximum pain with minimum marks, such as showing steel pens up the noses of arrested protesters. The dates in the diary show training taking place through the month of August, 1970. The People's Army Jamboree grew out of a protest against a visit by Richard Nixon; the event developed into a music festival called Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life, which was the origin of the Rainbow Family.

Cat.No: 346781

Price: $300.00