In Memory of Carl Oglesby
Against The Current vol. 155
Altman, Ross
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3434
Date Written: 2011-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX14098
Forty-six years ago this November, then-SDS president Carl Oglesby stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and told those assembled to protest the war in Vietnam that the men who were responsible for that war were not evil, they were “trapped in a system.” They were, like Antony had told the crowd of those who had killed Caesar, “all honorable men.” Indeed, they were all liberals.
