Read-In for Peace Statement
1967 · Broadside BR 452 · USA
- Artist
- Stanley Kauffmann
- 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
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Speech
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: What we protest is not only the death, mutilation and suffering of American, Vietnamese, and others; We protest the corruption of this 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
Stanley Kauffmann (spelled 'Kauffman' on the album credit), American film and theater critic, born 24 April 1916 in New York City, died 9 October 2013 in New York City; film critic for The New Republic for 55 years (1958-2013) and drama critic for The New York Times during 1966. He chaired the Read-In for Peace in Vietnam at New York's Town Hall on 20 February 1966, and both his opening statement and closing remarks appear on the event LP (Broadside BR 452 / Folkways FL 9752, 1967) alongside Susan Sontag, Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller and others. [Source: Wikipedia / Smithsonian Folkways]
Themes
From the release The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam