Lot
gift
Identifier:
2025.042
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Description
Donation of publications, serials, newspapers, subject files, and ephemera belonging to anti-war activist Jim Murphy. Includes documentation of the peace movement as well as counter materials from the right at this time period.
These materials were donated after his passing in 2023 by his wife Susan.
After serving in the Air Force in Vietnam, Jim Murphy became actively involved in the peace movement, joining Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. In 1971, he was one of the Dewey Canyon III action coordinators, in which Vietnam veterans threw their medals back on the Capitol steps to protest the war. He was also one of 14 Vietnam Veterans Against the War who took over the Statue of Liberty on December 26, 1971. His experiences in Vietnam galvanized a lifelong commitment to working for peace and justice.