Soldiers in Revolt
Panel and Opening Reception for the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibition!
Sponsored by the Harvey Goldberg Center & the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
April 2, 2024
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Susan Schnall – President, Veterans for Peace
Ronald L. Haeberle – Army Photographer of the Iconic My Lai Massacre Photographs
David Cortright – Professor Emeritus, Special Advisor for Policy, University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute
*Hosted by John Nichols and moderated by Professor Alfred W. McCoy*
View via Zoom at https://wisconsinhistory.zoom.us/j/82371446390
Light refreshments served!
As the war in Vietnam progressed, tens of thousands of American soldiers from all branches of the Army turned against the war. The Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit on display at the Wisconsin Historical Society, UW-Oshkosh and Marquette University, from April 1 through April 22, documents this little-known peace movement within America’s Armed Forces.
This introductory panel brings together three veterans who catapulted the GI peace movement into the forefront of the American public’s consciousness.
Susan Schnall is the President of Veterans for Peace, which is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using their experiences and lifting their voices. They inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Their network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars.
Ronald L. Haeberle is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up.
David Cortright is Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, Cortright was the Director of Policy Studies at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and director of the institute’s Peace Accords Matrix project, the largest existing collection of implementation data on intrastate peace agreements.
Alfred McCoy is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specializes in the history of the Philippines, foreign policy of the United States, European colonisation of Southeast Asia, illegal drug trade, and Central Intelligence Agency covert operations.
John NIchols is the associate editor of The Capital Times, and the national affairs correspondent for The Nation. The author of co-author of more than a dozen books on media and democracy issues, he is a frequent commentator on the BBC, RTE-Irish Radio, MSNBC, NPR and many other broadcast outlets. Nichols is a co-founder, with Robert W. McChesney, of Free Press, the largest media reform group in the United States, and has twice been the keynote speaker for global congresses of the International Federation of Journalists.
*Click here for more information on Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibits and events at UW-Madison, UW-Oshkosh, and Marquette University at the Wisconsin Historical Society from April 1-22, 2024.
