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Ben Page and Lee Webb organized this national vigil. They sent out 2,000 announcements. On Christmas Eve night, only 11 people showed up at the White House, amidst the snow. The AP interviewed Webb, and the news of the vigil appeared in newspapers around the country.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in...

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Senate candidate for Massachusetts

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in...

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Includes Tocsin news forum publications. Tocsin was a first of its kind anti-war group, at Harvard University. Lee Webb attended some meetings. Todd Gitlin, a Tocsin member, was president of SDS when Webb was national secretary.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in...

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Includes issues of Advance, Liberation, Liberator, The New Leader, The Minority of One, and Progressive Labor, which was much later, after Lee Webb left SDS and reflects one of the reasons he did so.