Negro Soldiers Refuse to Fight in Vietnam

The Week Vol. 4, No. 11, 23 September 1965 · p. 13 of the scan · 80 words

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According to news agency reports from Saigon four Negro soldiers of the First U.S. Cavalry Division (Air Mobile) have attempted a hunger strike on a U.S. troop ship on the way to South Vietnam to demonstrate their refusal to ' that country. Among them, J.L. Jackson, aged 21, was sentenced to six months in gaol and forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay on charges of "disobeying orders to prepare to move to South Vietnam," Three others are still awaiting trial,