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Thanks. I wonder if he put up any money or whether he was a funnel for money.

According to Walinsky Kerry himself was broke at the time, and that is why Walinsky gave him money--for busses. And Kerry is listed as in charge of transportation.

It's said in one of the books that McGovern and Hatfield funneled $50,000 into the Dewey Canyon III demonstration--from a New York source.

In the books it is suggested that they kept Kerry around for his fundraising ability. I wonder who else he hit up besides Walinsky.

From "Home to War" pg. 104-105:

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Even worse, the week before Dewey Canyon was to start, there was not a cent left in the VVAW treasury. John Kerry was certainly doing yeoman's service at fund-raising. He had given up his book contract with Random House in order to travel and speak throughout the country on behalf of VVAW; organizing, bringing in veterans, asking for donations -- working sometimes twenty hours a day. But when Phelan had trouble with the park permits, Kerry had to return to Washington to marshal a group of lawyers, and in the end Kerry negotiated many of the permits personally. This accomplished, he returned to the VVAW office, only to receive a phone call telling him that five thousand vets were waiting for their bus tickets to D.C., but no one knew where the money to purchase them would come from.

Kerry immediately got on the phone to some of the biggest Democratic Party fund-raisers in New York and set up a meeting. When it broke up, VVAW was $75,000 in the black, and busfare for at least a few hundred out-of-towners was assured.

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So, the Winter Soldier investigation was primarily financed by Fonda and Lane, but Dewey Canyon III was paid for by Democratic Party fund-raisers. Very interesting.

"According to Walinsky Kerry himself was broke at the time, and that is why Walinsky gave him money--for busses. And Kerry is listed as in charge of transportation"

How could a guy with the money Kerry's family had be broke? Too young to dig into his trust fund money or something?