He was a member of ", They released the doves to fly. Even Tom Hayden, the SDS radical, was a pallbearer. I got pregnant during the tour in a motor home en route to Buffalo, NY. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. [25][26] Hayden and Fonda divorced in 1990. Lets take those three simple words and embrace the future! He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images). American social and political activist, author, and politician (19392016), For other people named Thomas Hayden, see. [5] The Haydens divorced in 1965. "They killed Kennedy," he said. Williams spoke just a few lines about her husband before singing a folk song about pushing a rock uphill. Two of the Chicago 7 defendants,Rennie Davis and John Froines, were at the memorial. In the course of preparing the memorial, I reread many of his books and speeches, watched films, news footage and interviews of Tom that Troy and Barbara assembled and read letters that friends and colleagues of his were sending in about the impact Tom had on their lives. 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Healey Library", "IPC Films Production Company filmography", "Tom Hayden, counterculture icon, invites public to dig into his archives", "Activist, politician Tom Hayden is remembered at UCLA memorial", "How the late Tom Hayden went from a fiery activist to a progressive lawmaker", "An Endorsement of the Movement Barack Obama Leads", "Barack Is Our Best OptionAnd You're Needed Now! Hayden is the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California and is an outspoken critic of continuing global conflicts. Obituary. He didnt see that I was from the most infamous gang. Among the most important progressive political figures of our era, he co-authored the historic SDS-founding Port Huron Statements in the early 1960s, was a defendant in the trial of the legendary Chicago Seven, and went on to serve as a California State Senator. Tom was our friend, and boy, could we use his voice right now, said Father Greg Boyle, the Homeboy Industries founder who worked with Hayden on efforts to rehabilitate gang members. I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. He has taught at Evergreen State College and serves on the board of Earth Island Institute. Please give it a try and become a member or subscribe to the newsletter of Bonnies Pride and Joy! Thank you. JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Shocking photographs surfaced, of young girls running naked from a wall of flames, of suspected traitors being summarily assassinated without investigation of their supposed disloyalty; in one case, in lurid, living color, crimson gushed like a fountain from the head of a man shot at point-blank range. Though he knew presidents and princes, Tom Hayden ultimately was a man of the streets the kind of open streets where American democracy best thrives. I was able to shake his hand later and tell him I appreciated it. . Bobby Kennedy Jr spoke about Tom's Irishness and why the Kennedy family asked Tom to be one of the pall bearers at Robert . Tom died last October surrounded by people who loved him. CMT Crossroads Bonnie Raitt and Lyle Lovett The Factory Franklin TN, Chris Stapleton, Bonnie Raitt Helm B.B. He was married to actress and social activist Jane Fonda for 17 years, and was the father of actor Troy Garity. The most revered of the speakers was a man I'd never heard of until then. Richard Fernandez, Judith Lerner, David McReynolds, Gerald Horne, Marcus Raskin, Rev. There were people who were part of creating the seminal Port Huron Statement on which Tom was the lead writer and editor the document that laid out in beautiful, even soulful, language an entirely new vision of what a Democratic society would look like. DeWayne, born in Watts, and Alex who as a child immigrated from El Salvador to escape the bloody civil war that ravaged his mother county. In this deeply moving, visionary talk, he considers how a grassroots movement might overcome the most powerful empire in world history. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in Los . During 2001, he unsuccessfully sought election to the Los Angeles City Council. [15] His profile in Newark attracted the attention of the FBI. On the long bus trip back to Wisconsin, I couldn't get her out of my mind and a song came to me. He hired them to work on his Senate staff, and even traveled with them to El Salvador to witness the gang violence that forces so many young people to seek refuge in the US. Fifty years have passed since the one that changed everything for my generation, the crucial turning point when the promise of the 1960s turned to a defeat and despair that still weighs on our thoughts of what might have been. Tears flowing. Then, we sat in stunned silence while Johnson announced his withdrawal from the race. Though all were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot, Seale was later tried separately with the rest thus dubbed the Chicago Seven. [22], Hayden made several subsequent well-publicized visits to North Vietnam as well as Cambodia during America's involvement in the Vietnam War, which had expanded under President Richard M. Nixon to include the adjoining nations of Laos and Cambodia, although he did not accompany his future wife, actress Jane Fonda, on her especially controversial trip to Hanoi in the spring of 1972. "The Politics of 'The Movement'", in Irving Howe (ed.). It was a roller coaster year of emotional highs and lows, when unlikely dreams suddenly seemed possible, only to be dashed time and again. When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. By Robert D. McFadden. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Bonnie Raitt Wins Song of the Year for Just Like That at Grammy Awards. Michael Finnegan is a Los Angeles Times reporter covering federal courts and law enforcement. I didnt realize at the time what a brave and controversial departure that was for the Peace Movement and how much heat Tom took from the left for adopting this educational, grassroots strategy with its congressional focus. On April 2, I voted in my first election ever. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. The results would likely have been the same. Their rhetoric was loudly anti-American and pro-socialist. Nicholas Lemann, the former Dean of Columbia Journalism School declared that "Tom Hayden changed America". He was a bum, Hayden critic Anthony Imperiale of the Newark Citizens Committee was shown saying to a burst of laughter and applause in Royce Hall. First, Johnson declared a moratorium on bombing attacks on North Vietnam; the anti-war pressure was getting to him. A "military-industrial complex" of interlocking boards of directors containing the same elite players, dominated our politics as a "ruling class." The SDS was the vanguard of the student unrest that characterized the decade of the 1960s. He can be reached through his website: www.johndegraaf.com. I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups. Her name was Luz, which means "light" in Spanish, but her story was decidedly dark. He had come to trust Bobby, despite the latter's wealth and establishment connections. Bonnie Raitt, a longtime friend and supporter of Toms, sangChange is Gonna Come.. [39] Though he originally leaned towards Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary, Hayden later announced he would support Hillary Clinton and cast his vote for her when the primary reached California. Those who spoke, led by his wife, Barbara Williams, covered the waterfront of a remarkable life: Tom Haydens achievements as a radical American reformer (in the words of his friend, Steve Wasserman); his contrarian nature, seen early on from Detroit and Ann Arbor days; his relentlessness and prescience, from his work in Georgia to Newark, Chicago to California; overall, his giftedness and singular voice all evoked with admiration and affection. It was bitterly cold in the snowy streets of Madison that night, but none of us noticed. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Save my name, email, and website in this browser cookies for the next time I comment. As a member of the State Assembly, Hayden introduced the bill that became Chapter 1238 of the California Statutes of 1987. Does an Israel/Palestine Joke in Succession Trailer Tell Us Anything About Season 4? Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there. Both spoke of how Tom had believed in them despite their troubled pasts. I never saw Luz again after that night. whose plane had been shot down. Kevin DeLeon,President Pro Tem of the California Senate, talked about what Tom accomplished as a member of the state legislature for 14 years when term limits forced his retirement. At the end of the month, I was invited to attend an event called the Hemispheric Conference Against the War in Vietnam being held in the Canadian city of Montreal. In discussing the legacy of JFK on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, Tom Hayden warmly remembered meeting JFK as a student leader of the anti-war and civil rights movements. But your dove couldn't sing. argued that our democracy was largely an illusion. Other books documented the power of this elite over foreign policy, describing how the CIA had overthrown Arbenz in Guatemala, Mossadegh in Iran, and other elected leaders, to protect the profits of American corporations. Hayden told HuffPost Live how empowering it was for him and his fellow student leaders to deliver a proposal to Kennedy and witness Kennedy carry it out in the . Together with singer Holly Near, POWsBob Chenowith and George Smith and others, the IPC tour began at the Ohio State Fair and traveled to100 cities in 3 months during the fall of 1972. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, an old-liner, ran the convention with an iron fist. Several of the black students were fighting back tears; knowing the anger they must be feeling. [47] Former U.S. President Bill Clinton memorialized him, saying, "Hillary and I knew him for more than thirty years and valued both his words of support and his criticism."[48]. Their dialogue was peppered with the N word and references to "good riddance.". But that night we dashed by the hundreds into the streets cheering, singing and dancing. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy . I was far from the only one in tears as I heard them speak about Tom. We celebrated with pitchers of beer and drove back to Superior with headaches the next day, happy to have them. (1972), Introduction to the Enemy (1974), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980) and On Golden Pond (1981). Opportunistically or otherwise, another critic of the war, New York senator Robert Kennedy, then entered the race. Senator John V. Tunney. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 8 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda,. In early February, during the Vietnamese New Year's celebration, National Liberation Front (the Americans called them "Viet Cong") troops attacked throughout South Vietnam, capturing the famed "Citadel" in Hue and other prominent posts formerly thought impregnable. Please read and accept our website Terms and Privacy Policy to post a comment. (Photo: Screenshot), The Year That Changed Everything: A Personal Memory of 1968. The Watergate scandal and the unraveling of the presidency gave decisive new leverage to Toms Congressional strategy and in the fall of 73 the IPC tour went out again with the same team plus 3-month-old Troy who slept in dresser drawers along the way. Collect, curate and comment on your files. Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator. But the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be the headlights of an onrushing train. "[7] The sponsoring League for Industrial Democracy (LID) took immediate issue. Tom Hayden once said that whenever it looked like the progressive majority was coming to power in the 1960s, it was interrupted by killings, killings performed by unknown forces. The next morning, the first driver to give me a ride was surprised that I hadn't heard the news. 2023 Getty Images. (10/24/16), http://img.youtube.com/vi/qwpvHAn__bM/0.jpg. [3] As a result, when he graduated in 1956,[4][1] he was banned from attending his graduation ceremony and only received a diploma.[3]. But my euphoria was short-lived. His new initiative is the Make America Beautiful Again campaign. ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - JUNE 9: Pallbearers (including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., John Glenn, Douglas Dillon, LeMoyne Billings, Lord Harlech, James Whittaker, Steven Smith, David Hackett' Robert S. McNamara and Rafer Johnson) carry the coffin of Senator Robert Kennedy to the grave site at Arlington National Cemetery on June 9, 1968 in Arlington County, Virginia. The New Left would splinter and descend into violence as Nixon escalated the war. The Law of the Press was one of the courses he taught. Pallbearers will be the employees of Smith Lumber Company: Murray Abendroth, Chris Stark, Carol Kennedy, Daniel Jarrett, Jason Tatum, Josh Hofstetter, Kevin Stegall, Kenneth Blevins, Jimmy Boyd and Jarren Robertson. In the same year, while the Vietnam War was still ongoing, the documentary film Introduction to the Enemy, a collaboration by Fonda, Hayden, Haskell Wexler and others, was released. In Indianapolis, Bobby Kennedy braved an angry crowd to urge the non-violence that King had espoused. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. In later years, he ran for political office numerous times, winning seats in both the California Assembly and California Senate. While most pollsters expected McCarthy to be trounced by Johnson in the first primary election in New Hampshire on March 14, he ran a close race trailing the President by only seven percentage points. Although their casualties in the so-called "Tet Offensive" were enormous, the Vietnamese struck fear into American troops and their supporters back home. He enjoyed making music, going to church, attending Wheeler basketball games, Ole Miss athletics, watching Westerns and spending time with his grandchildren. Hed gotten beat up by police in Mississippi and gone to jail for his beliefs in Georgia, Kennedy told the audience at UCLAs Royce Hall. [29][30], During 1976, Hayden made a primary election challenge to California U.S. Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Much as Tom Hayden would thrill to the voices of protest today, I suspect hed counsel a degree of caution that the moment might last and democracy endure. Hayden and Fonda were a major force in California politics in the 1970s and 80s, and Hayden went on to represent the liberal Westside in the state Assembly and Senate for 18 years. Napalm, a terrifying jellied gasoline that cooked people alive, was dropped indiscriminately. Women and gays were protesting discrimination. Troy, Barbara and I had the speakers arranged in chronological order so that one could see the entire sweep of Toms life as an organizer/strategist/movement builder/writer/journalist/State Senator. Then too, the coffins continued to return home in large numbers, carrying the bodies of sons and husbands, fresh-faced children barely out of their teens, if that. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. Cesar thought for a few moments and then said, It only makes sense if you build a movement out of your campaign structure when its over.And that became CED: The California Campaign for Economic Democracy that got scores of progressives elected to state and local offices and many measures passed like Prop 65. Hayden was called to a meeting where, refusing any further concession, he clashed with Michael Harrington, as he later would with Irving Howe. He and Williams adopted a son. Hayden was a teaching assistant at the University of Michigan Journalism Department in the early 1960s. Dave Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and incitement to riot as part of the "Chicago Eight", a.k.a. While McCarthy was eloquent about the fiasco in Vietnam, Kennedy offered more hope of uniting the war protestors with union members, minorities and the poor. King Grammy Tribute, Jerry Garcia Band with Bonnie Raitt, Berkeley Greek 8.30.1987, Talking with Guitarist Songwriter Will McFarlane, Bonnie Raitt: The Rolling Stone Interview, Stephen Bruton one of Austins best guitar players passes away, https://lnk.to/somethingsgotaholdofmyheart. In 2015 Tom wrote: Following Barbaras song, members of theFirst AME Choir Tom Morello, Holly Near, Bonnie Raitt and James McVay and myself joined Barbara on stage for a rendition of Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn me Around, appropriately ending the memorial with everyone on their feet and singing along. Hayden was in the vanguard of the 1960s counterculture movement, a radical who led civil rights and antiwar protests and later became a prolific author and member of of the California Legislature. But there were many others who still believed in the system and had worked hard for McCarthy or Kennedy. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Chapter 1238 enacted Section 76060.5 of the California Education Code. The omission wasnt an evasion; it was testimony to the man we came to remember and what he was about. That doesn't mean that there can't be some attempts at remedies, but these should never be used as an excuse to stay."[43]. There was just cool and uncool. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't. It captures what so many felt: Ilearned so much more about the efforts and events that have shaped and changed the directions of so manythan I was conscious ofincluding those that have influenced and made possible my own courseI was awakened to such gratitude, and I found myself gaining inspiration and an inner charge to press forward with even more boldness. To Helstein's dismay, Alinsky dismissed Hayden's venture into the field as naive and doomed to failure. Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee for President, promised a "secret plan" to end the war while condemning antiwar protestors in the name of what he termed "the silent majority." He and Williams adopted a son, Liam (born 2000). https://www.bonnieraitt.eu/wp-content/plugins/bookshelf-slider/, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/c91FbvW2hCo/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/5zwGe0O_MHU/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/0b0BkFj8jW8/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/PnnBk4HzJzQ/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/8qTQjuUfLu0/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/Z71L4JdrVBY/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/hCJa0505jZk/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/jXG6ULcK-qs/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/yHeBLEo4TOM/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/BQqk001wvy8/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/kucKKw9C8DA/hqdefault.jpg. Feel free to republish and share widely. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass celebrates it's 20th anniversary with an online broadcast titled Let The Music Play On. Fonda recalled meeting Hayden at one of her slide presentations against the Vietnam War. Would love your thoughts, please comment. 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Friends Dan Martin, right, and Michael Deiden embrace before a memorial service for activist and politician Tom Hayden at UCLAs Royce Hall on Sunday. Distributed by ADA. Undeterred at having been beaten senseless by a white mob in McComb, Mississippi, while covering the Freedom Rides for the National Student News,[6] Hayden himself became a Freedom Rider. The demonstrations were broken up by what the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence later described as a police riot. She later recalled that in contrast to the interminable debates she had witnessed in Ann Arbor, in SNCC discussions the focus was on action and women had a voice. We insist the term has lost all the specific content it once had. Feldmans path to observance took many twists and turns. 1 Billboard Hit Following Her Surprise Grammy Win, Bonnie Raitt gives us something to talk about show without sea of cellphones, Blues star Bonnie Raitt gives shoutout to Funny Farm in Mays Landing, Efforts by Harry Styles, Bonnie Raitt and more help register 150,000 new voters, Bonnie Raitt Releases Her Capitol Records Music Video Catalog Remastered For HD, Raitt Uses Grammy Win to Raise Social Awareness, 10 Legendary Albums You Didnt Know Feature Bonnie Raitt, Bonnie Raitt Essentials: 11 Songs That Showcase The Breadth And Depth Of The 2023 GRAMMYs Song Of The Year Winner, Media Backlash to Bonnie Raitts Grammy Success. Only two days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he'd gone to support striking sanitary workers. An anti-war Democrat, the cerebral Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy, had challenged President Johnson in the upcoming presidential primary election. During January 2008, Hayden wrote an opinion essay for The Huffington Post's website endorsing Barack Obama's presidential bid in the Democratic primaries. He evolved from 1961 to 1963 from viewing the . When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, the senators family picked Tom Hayden to be an honorary pallbearer at the funeral because the young antiwar activist embodied the great hope that my father had in the future of our country, Robert Kennedy Jr. recalled Sunday night at a memorial for Hayden. [10], Convinced, in the words of the Statement, that students must "look outwards to the less exotic but more lasting struggles for justice," and with $5000 from United Automobile Workers, Hayden's first SDS initiative was the Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP). They have come back with a vengeance and a cruelty that makes Nixon seem benign by comparison. On the convention floor, Peterson and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff rose to report that the police were beating people up outside. The care received by Robert F. Kennedy after he was shot in the head 50 years ago this month was the best possible at the time, and his injuries were so severe that he'd still have a low chance of survival today, researchers say. ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - JUNE 9: Pallbearers (including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., John Glenn, Douglas Dillon, LeMoyne Billings, Lord Harlech, James Whittaker, Steven Smith, David Hackett' Robert S. McNamara and Rafer Johnson) carry the coffin of Senator Robert Kennedy to the grave site at Arlington National Cemetery on June 9, 1968 in Arlington Cesar thought for a few moments and then said, It only makes sense if you build a movement out of your campaign structure when its over.And that became CED: The California Campaign for Economic Democracy that got scores of progressives elected to state and local offices and many measures passed like Prop 65. I wish I had an e-mailaddress of Bonnie but I don't have that. Williams told The New York Times that Hayden had a history of heart problems and his health had declined in the preceding months. They're also joined by Amy Allison his daughter, who executive produced the album about selecting an unexpected list of artists to contribute songs to the album. Does anyone know if he has recently shown any . Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center. [11] SDS community organizers would help draw white neighbourhoods into an "interacial movement of the poor". Used by permission. On May 1-2, 2015, one thousand people marked the 50th anniversary of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC. Since it was often impossible to know which Vietnamese were loyal to us and which were not, it was deemed necessary to kill everyone who might be suspect, destroying whole villages to "save" them. Feared they might hold all whites responsible for the slaying. He was a troublemaker, and to this day hes a troublemaker., Troy Garity, the son of Hayden and Fonda, told the crowd it was slightly difficult being the son of a communist radical and Hanoi Jane, and having our house lit on fire well, not really, but almost., He choked up about video footage showing cops beating up his father and paid tribute to everybody in the movement who lost somebody.. I watched with pride as Don Peterson, a Wisconsin businessman I'd worked with on the McCarthy campaign, nominated the brilliant African-American leader Julian Bond as a Vice Presidential candidate. He had changed the lives of most present such was the power and personality of Tom Hayden. She had come to the conference with several other student leaders from the Olympic protest. In her version, in pushing the rock we become stronger, not weaker. I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician. And dreaming of a time when all humankind will be free. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. Known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayden was the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity. Hayden taught numerous courses on social movements, two at Scripps Collegeone on the Long War and one on gangs in Americaand a course called "From the '60s to the Obama Generation" at Pitzer College. His book Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement, completed in the months before his death in October 2016, was published on January 31, 2017, by Yale University Press. Yes, our ground troops were coming home but the air war was beingescalated unbeknownst to most Americans and, in the south, our allies were imprisoning, torturing and corruptingVietnamese civilians in our name. Tom Hayden discussed his book "Reunion" during an interview at his Santa Monica, Calif., office in 1988. Hayden was dubbed "the liberal rebel" by George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times . Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 23:34. President Johnson had claimed we were winning the war and our enemies would soon be on their knees. Hayden died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2016, aged 76. All rights reserved. SDS Founder, Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street, http://img.youtube.com/vi/AJeAF3E2yl0/0.jpg, DemocracyNow.org We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
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