VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
The University of Kansas Student Auxiliary
V.V.A.R.: Leading the student revolt on campus against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, dormitory re-education, lying about Vietnam, and other instruments of academic oppression.
Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
Member: National Association of Scholars
CONTACT: Magruder44@aol.com - Phone: 785-312-9303
STUDENT GROUP AT KU HELPS BRING KERRY PROBLEMS TO ATTENTION OF MEDIA
By Leonard Magruder
2/14/04
Leonard Magruder, President of Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform, the student auxiliary at the University of Kansas, said today the group was celebrating helping to defeat another media “neglect,” something Mr. Magruder had done a number of times before. In 1982, he was the first, in a lengthy article distributed throughout the national media, to expose the lies in the CBS film, The Uncounted Enemy. General William Westmoreland wrote, “You have done an exhaustive bit of research and I congratulate you. I'm sending it to my lawyer.” In 1986 he led a nationwide campaign which broke the boycott by PBS of the film, Television’s Vietnam: The Impact of Media. The film showed how the media has distorted the news about the Vietnam War.
(On the issue of media bias, see CBS insider Bernard Goldberg's new book, Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite.)
In the matter of John Kerry, Mr. Magruder provided The Northwest Veterans Newsletter website with the only known copy at that time of Kerry's 1971 full written testimony before Congress. They posted it, making it available throughout the Vietnam veteran community. This was followed by an analysis, also posted, by Mr. Magruder of that testimony showing that Kerry was espousing many of the same anti-war arguments that were being forwarded by people like Jane Fonda. By then, other articles were appearing on the web by Vietnam vets both pro and con Kerry's anti-war activities in the 70’s. These articles also were posted on The Northwest Veterans Newsletter website, making it the first and major site for getting this material to the community and the media.
Initially, none of this material was appearing in the mainstream media. So Mr. Magruder wrote an article noting this fact and calling upon the foreign media to raise the issue, Media Engages in Cover-up of Kerry's Weakness on National Security. We reproduce two e-mails received today showing that this neglect by the media is being corrected and the questions being raised in the Vietnam vet community over Kerry's anti-war activities are now becoming public issues.
From Roger Young - Co-Editor, Northwest Veterans Newsletter (abbreviated):
“The problems with Kerry and his actions after his return from Vietnam are now surfacing in the mainstream press, thanks to Bill Bell, Mike Benge, Tony Cartlidge, Joe Crecca, Roger Hall, Chuck Lawrence, Leonard Magruder, Ted Sampley, and others who led the way and saved valuable documents over the years.
This newsletter also played a small part in getting the word out, starting several weeks before what is now the common thread on the vet networks and being the first to post Kerry's complete written ‘71 Senate testimony on 21 Jan 04 without comment (provided by Leonard Magruder), so that all who had read snippets from his testimony could now view Kerry's written testimony in full context, which I personally felt, was very important.
I believe our newsletter objective has been completed, and that it is now up to the mainstream press, the Republican party, and citizens to ask the questions—and for John Kerry to address those concerns.
Therefore, our special report on John Kerry will be terminated on 20 Feb 04.
Roger Young
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Click here to download a scanned copy of John Kerry’s transcribed testimony (courtesy of www.humaneventsonline.com), titled Legislative Proposals Relating To The War in Southeast Asia, dated Thursday, April 22, 1971.
From Ironman0311:
Just gave a thirty-minute interview with Knight - Ridder Newspapers (national) on Kerry and Fonda. Looks like your efforts are having great effect. Keep them cards and letters coming in folks! But, to achieve the optimal result write Letters To Editors, call, email, all media outlets in your region as well as national. All local, national, radio, TV shows. Run a Google search for contact information.
Mr. Magruder, President of Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform is available for phone interviews at 785-312-9303. While Mr. Magruder does not speak for Vietnam veterans, he is knowledgeable about “the war on the homefront,” having been a professor on various campuses during the Vietnam era. As a psychologist who did volunteer work with returning veterans, he is well familiar with the damage done by statements such as those made by Kerry about their service. Other issues we discuss which have also been neglected by the media are the limits of the current approach to terrorism and the need for a policy of deterrence, and the Academic Bill of Rights and Students for Academic Freedom as the latest developments in a growing student rebellion against leftist brainwashing on campuses. With the Vietnam War back in the news, we will also start re-issuing some of the many articles we have written on the need to challenge the false view of that war still being perpetuated on campus, mostly by those who would not serve.
Following are intros to two press releases on recent phone interviews.
PRESS RELEASE
MAGRUDER TELLS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA STUDENTS SOME VERSION OF MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION (MAD) NECESSARY TO PREVENT LOSS OF AMERICAN CITIES.
Leonard Magruder, President of Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform-KU, in a radio interview on WRUF, Gainsville, told students at the University of Florida today that the man raising the most crucial questions of the hour was Daniel Pipes, Bush appointee and the nation’s top expert on Islam and the Middle East. (Other interviews by Mr. Magruder include WDEV,Vermont; United Press International out of Washington, D.C.; WFNC, North Carolina; and a number of radio and TV stations in the local area, Topeka, Lawrence, and Kansas City.)
Said Dr. Pipes: “Why have university specialists proven so inept at understanding the great contemporary issues of war and peace, starting with Vietnam, then the Cold War, the Kuwait war, and now the War on Terror? What is the long-term effect of an extremist, intolerant and anti-American environment on university students?”
In a week-long program of films and lectures on Vietnam at the University of Kansas, Mr. Magruder, to illustrate what Dr. Pipes said, opened the program by quoting the Final Report of the Chief of Military History–U.S. Government:
“If there is to be an inquiry related to the Vietnam War, it should be into the reasons why enemy propaganda was so widespread in this country, and why the enemy was able to condition the public to such an extent that the best educated segments of our population (university people) gave credence to the most incredible allegations.”
PRESS RELEASE
VERMONT HEARS MAGRUDER TELL ABOUT VIETNAM VET COUNTERPROTEST IN WASHINGTON JAN 18, 2004
Lawrence, Ks. Jan 11 - Leonard Magruder, President of Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform—K.U., was the guest yesterday on the popular hour-long Laurie Morrow Show (WDEV) reaching all Vermont out of Montpelier.
The subject was a counterprotest by Vietnam vets being planned for Jan 18 in Washington. Mr. Magruder's student auxiliary group at the Univ. of Kansas is supporting the counterprotest being organized by Mr. Joel Charles Kernodle, a Vietnam combat veteran and President of the 1st Marine Division Association of Indiana.
In addition, Mr. Magruder, whose documentary, How the Campus Lied About Vietnam, is currently being shown at universities and veteran organizations around the country, has sent additional copies to strategic TV stations in Washington to show that what the anti-war protestors will be saying on Jan. 18 is simply a recycling of the lies they used to betray South Vietnam in the 60's.
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