This is a 1970 Los Angeles Free Press ad for a benefit theater piece and speech to help war resisters. Lester Cole, the author of the work, was one of the founders of the Screen Writers Guild, the group that recently held a work stoppage to get a new contract with Hollywood producers.
Howard Levy was an Army medical officer and early Vietnam War resister who was court-martialed in 1967 at Fort Jackson for saying U.S. military actions in Southeast Asia were unjust and medics were being used to mollify the Vietnamese even as bombing continued.
In 2002, he told the New York Times he stood by his position that led to his imprisonment and felt a kinship with Israeli army reservists "who have said they would refuse to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of Israeli treatment of the Palestinians."
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