[BushisTheMan]

The Southern Regional Co-ordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Bill Lemmer, revealed himself as an undercover FBI operative in May of 1972. Eight people, seven of whom were Vietnam veterans, were charged with conspiring to disrupt the Republican National Convention, which was to be held in Miami, Florida, that summer.

When it was revealed that members of VVAW had attempted to order slingshots, to use for defence during demonstrations they had planned, they were charged with being a subversive organization and a threat to the United States government.

The eight who had been arrested became known as 'The Gainesville [Florida] Eight'. Folk singers Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs came to the support of The Gainesville Eight, as did the paralyzed Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, whose life story was later told in the Oliver Stone movie Born on the Fourth of July. All eight were acquitted, after the Republican National Convention had ended.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A715060

[AmericanInTokyo]

going through the COPIOUS FBI files on VVAW from 1968 to 1975 right now. there are THOUSANDS of them...declassified, partially redacted, etc.

[Tommie Paine]

'ALL EIGHT WERE ACQUITTED!' The means this issue was adjudicated based on the laws of the land and the Gainesville Eight were freed.
Police Agent/FBI informer Lemmer lied and now Lemmer is DEAD! (With Nixon and J Edgar ;-)


This was another FBI COINTELPRO operation which failed so miserably like the op in the Kansas City debacle. It was the State interjecting violence into the VVAW agenda to justify the agent provocateurs' 30 pieces of silver.