Read-In for Peace Statement
1967 · Broadside BR 452 · USA
- Artist
- Arthur Miller
- Title
- Read-In for Peace Statement
- Release
- The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Broadside # BR 452
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Arthur Miller
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Speech
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: We are being tested now. Are the Vietnamese people expendable, or are we to feel intimately responsible for the destruction of their country?
Notes
Broadside Records BR 452, also numbered Folkways Records FL 9752; "Recorded at Town Hall, New York", "Produced by the Committee of the Professions", "Chairman of the Evening: Stanley Kauffmann", "Edited by Rosalind Wells and Louis Menashe"; © 1967 by Broadside Records, 701 Seventh Ave., New York 10036; cover design by Ronald Clyne; "Recorded at Town Hall by John Sadler". The plain text-only front cover is matched by a black back with a white spine panel listing all 29 participants, and "Descriptive notes are inside pocket". The eight-page booklet gives the running order (Side One: Dr. Oscar Sachs, Stanley Kauffmann, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Alan Dugan, Alfred Kazin, Susan Sontag, Galway Kinnell, Viveca Lindfors, Denise Levertov, William Gibson, Jules Feiffer, Louis Untermeyer, William Styron, Maureen Stapleton; Side Two: Tony Randall, Hortense Calisher, Robert Lowell, Lenore Marshall…
About the artist
American playwright, born 17 October 1915 in New York City; died 10 February 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam