Scope and Contents

Approximately one linear foot of documents, newsletters, museum objects, newspapers, and periodicals donated to the Vietnam Archive by Daniel Kurtzman. The materials were gathered by Kurtzman while he was the director of the Washington, D.C. Strike Center set up by the National Student Association. Mr. Kurtzman was active in the anti-war movement and collected pamphlets on Vietnam War, chemical weapons, McCarthy campaign materials, materials about the Kent State shooting, including a letter written to Mr. Kurtzman with an eyewitness account by a photographer present at the shooting, calls for student/university strikes and sit ins, press releases, statements and papers put out by various student protest organizations in the Washington DC area, calls to action for America's youth to change the government, pamphlets and flyers inviting people to join various marches and peace rallies, information about the Roger Priest court martial for printing a protest newspaper

Biographical / Historical

Daniel M. Kurtzman attended Wittenberg University and became actively involved with the anti-war communuity and conducted several anti-war highway demonstrations. In January of 1970 he began his work in The Vietnam Moratorium Committee in Washington. He was the co-director of the We Won't Go anti-draft program. In reaction to Kent State and Jackson State student protestors being murdered at protests Daniel became the the director of the National Student's Association Student Strike Center and worked closely with two other centers at Berkeley and Brandeis University. He left Washington DC in September of 1970 and ended his activism.