Gene Keyes, nonviolent action photos, p.1

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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Polaris Action / New England Committee for Nonviolent Action, I have compiled a quick photo-scan album of myself and others participating in those and similar nonviolent demonstrations against war, 1961-1964.

Gene Keyes
2010-04-14

Page 1, 1961

Prologue: Who got me into all this . . .

I should not start the album without a nod to two of my peace-action heroes. (8x10s, dog-eared from being on various walls without a frame.)

A.J. Muste, 1885-1967 (1963? Source unknown; scanned by gk)

Bradford Lyttle, 1927- (1963? Source unknown; scanned by gk.)

Set 1) 1961-03-11 ff: Kittery, Maine to UN Peace Walk
[tributary of San Francisco to Moscow Peace Walk]

I don't recall all the names here. Gene Keyes is in front; Tor Faegre has second sign, Beverly Sterner just behind him on left.

Same ID as above. Smudge on sign is photo defect.

Joel Kent on right. Charles Jackson (?) on left.

Ditto above.

Michael Itkin in front, Tor Faegre third in line.

Carol Swann on left (?).

SF-Moscow Peace March in NYC 1

Convergence of Kittery-to-UN, and San Francisco-to-Moscow peace walks in NYC. Itkin in front.

SF-Moscow Peace March in NYC 2

San Francisco to Moscow Peace Walk in NYC.

All photos by or for Gene Keyes on his cheapo camera;
scanned by gk 2009-11

Set 2) 1961-03-26: Quincy, MA, recon for [canceled] demonstration at Bethlehem Steel shipyard

Gordon Christiansen; Ed Guerard

Gordon Christiansen and Ed Guerard

Ed Guerard and Gordon Christiansen

Gordon Christiansen and Gene Keyes

Ed Guerard and Gene Keyes

All photos by or for Gene Keyes on his cheapo camera;
scanned by gk 2009-11

Set 3) Polaris Action 1961-06

Ed Sanders; Penny Young

Ed Sanders and Penny Young, at NECNVA house in Norwich

Gene, Ed

Ed Sanders and Gene Keyes, at NECNVA house in Norwich

Paul Berner and Jackie McCracken. (Slogan by GK: Adolph Eichmann was in the news at that time, being tried in Israel as chief architect of the "Final Solution".)

Paul Berner and Jackie McCracken.

All photos by or for Gene Keyes on his cheapo camera;
scanned by gk 2009-11

Set 4) 1961-08-08, Ethan Allen demonstration (jpegs of GK article)

Joe Tuchinsky, later an activist himself, was editor of the Champaign-Urbana Spectator when he published my article describing the Ethan Allen civil disobedience demonstration. Seen in cover photo below are Janice McKinley, Beverly Sterner, Ed Sanders, David Mitchell, Jackie McKracken, Gene Keyes, and Paul Berner.

Scanned by gk 2010-04-17

Set 5) Urbana, IL, support vigil for Committee of 100, 1961-12

After my first tour of duty at Polaris Action, I had returned to my family home in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where I helped arrange local demonstrations by the Quakers, Student Peace Union, etc. Early in 1962, I co-organized the Chicago to Washington Peace March, with Dennis Weeks. (Following page.)

1961-12-09: Dennis Weeks et al: vigil in support of Committee of 100 sitdown in Britain. (This location: display missile at armory, University of Illinois, Urbana.)

Dennis Weeks, Charlotte E. Keyes

Dennis Weeks; Charlotte E. Keyes.

Gene Keyes.

Don't know who.

Dennis Weeks

Don't remember who.

Michelle Gloor.

All photos in this set by Troy Mayr. (His camera was better than mine.)
Scanned by gk 20009-11

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Go to Page 3, 1964, Part 1
Go to Page 4, 1964, Part 2
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