John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best. This is the biggest speech in a series of speeches and events held by John Kerry to end the war in Vietnam as fast as possible. John Kerry anti-war testimony to the Senate (1971) In April 1971 John Kerry, a former US Navy Lieutenant and a spokesperson for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: [John Kerry, Vietnam veteran and spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, gained national attention for his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.] As Sen. John Kerry 's campaign gains momentum, conservative critics are attacking his anti-war activism in the years after his return from Vietnam, saying Kerry slandered veterans with his … John Kerry is not fit to be elected dog catcher let alone President of the United States. It included Al Hubbard, who had served in the Air Force and had lied about being in Vietnam, and Jan Barry, who was a radio mechanic in Vietnam prior to the 1965 troop buildup. New York: New York University Press, 1999. But an even larger number of veterans say that's not the case. Accusations against John Kerry from Former Navy Swift Boat crewmen from the Vietnam War–Truth!, Fiction! Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry, 1971 to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations April 23, 1971 I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. Sen. Kerry, the "noble statesman" and "highly decorated Vietnam vet" of today, is a far cry from Kerry, the radical, hippie-like leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) … — John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, statement to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971. Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry April 23, 1971 to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations. I am not here as John Kerry. As news spread Tuesday of the convention's framework, members of a group called Swift Boat Veterans for … Kerry backed the treaty. As a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, he went to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and, as network TV cameras rolled, he threw medals and ribbons over the fence – his own, it was naturally assumed. Others rail against war, like M.I.A. We have covered a period by actual firsthand testimony from 1963 to 1970 - seven years. The nine points were all taken from a list of Viet Cong conditions for ending the war. Summary of eRumor: There is a series of forwarded emails about Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry and the accusations of an organization of swift boat crews from the Vietnam era. A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans … John Kerry, director of the Vietnam Veterans against the War, testified before special session the Senate Foreign Relations Committee April 22, 1971 Kerry, John F. A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America. [Note: Jan Barry was a founder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, after resigning from West Point.] John Kerry and War Crimes in Vietnam By Jan Barry [Note: Jan Barry was a founder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, after resigning from West Point.] & Disputed! On April 22nd, 1971, 27 year-old former Navy Lt. John Kerry testified against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War as a member of "Vietnam Veterans Against the War… Kerry then turned to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In January 2004, Admiral Roy Hoffman read Douglas Brinkley's campaign biography, Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, and was incensed. This group had been founded in 1967 by six veterans. Primary Source: Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971) On April 23, 1971, a young Vietnam veteran named John Kerry spoke on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War before the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations. One of those members in the early 1970s was John Kerry. What the national news media has not reported in the current controversy - just as was not widely reported in 1971 - are the crimes of war that Kerry summarized in his antiwar speech to Congress. 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