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![Interview with Steven Wentworth; An Interview with Three American Deserters of War - Lou Simon, Mike Powers, and Jerry Condon PART II](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/27/1971Call Number: CE 491Format: Cass A & BProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Side A: Steve Wentworth refused induction and deserted to Sweden. Discusses how and why, and what it was like once he arrived. Topics include: distinction between draft resistors and those who left the armed forces, language barriers, aid to deserters, Swedish student anti-war demonstrations, Sweden’s recognition of NLF, drugs linked to American deserters, and how deserters are perceived as a strain on Swedish/American business relations.
Cuts in/out a bit.
Side B: Continuation of CE 490: American Deserter Committee: An Interview with Three American Deserters of War - Lou Simon, Mike Powers, and Jerry Condon. Topics include: US isolated due to Vietnam, popularity of George Jackson, European sympathies to deserters, how deserters are treated in various countries, relationships with family after desertion, history of American Deserters Committee, which represents a refusal to take part in atrocity.
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