VIETDAMNED

Guilty the conclusion of many trials But this verdict was unusual delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael and over a dozen international luminaries all presided over by the legendary philosopher mathematician Bertrand Russell The defendant was unusual too the United States government In Vietdamned award winning historian Clive Webb reveals the extraordinary little known history of the 1967 Russell Tribunal and its attempt to hold the US government to account for atrocities committed during the Vietnam War What they revealed shocked the world In a revolutionary decade these celebrity intellectuals put their careers and reputations at stake and faced fierce opposition from the media governments and the CIA Vietdamned is both a history of the anti war movement and a story of the power and limits of celebrity cover ups and abuses of government

Guilty the conclusion of many trials But this verdict was unusual delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael and over a dozen international luminaries all presided over by the legendary philosopher mathematician Bertrand Russell The defendant was unusual too the United States government In Vietdamned award winning historian Clive Webb reveals the extraordinary little known history of the 1967 Russell Tribunal and its attempt to hold the US government to account for atrocities committed during the Vietnam War What they revealed shocked the world In a revolutionary decade these celebrity intellectuals put their careers and reputations at stake and faced fierce opposition from the media governments and the CIA Vietdamned is both a history of the anti war movement and a story of the power and limits of celebrity cover ups and abuses of government