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en a al ne ee RS eg Tate ele a inti ately» acinar Ae ees ol ee a Meee j UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION - eg Tere ————_ ha ec. Bae - eoelilellen Kenphis, Tennessee September 4, 1969 RE: PEACE CARAVAN, 1969 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE INFORMATION CONCERN ING DiAFT RESISTANCE UNION OF MEMPHIS (DRUK) SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT IXTZRNAL SECUR:TY - MISCE!i.ANEOUS Tne Commercial Appe Memphis, Tennessee daily neyspaper pege 4, Section r 18su of Peeca Su ugust 31, 1969, in a story entitlec "Nov Peaceful Canpus Ponders Fall's ‘Studiest In Sirife, by Reporter Gary Gvoodran. This .~ticle discussed genera! campus unrest in the Mid=south area and predicted the potential for trouble during the Fall, 1969. One part reads: "The role of SDS and white radicals on the Memphis State Campus further illustrates the relative quiet in the Mid=south. The MSU Student Senate refused to grant a charter for the local SDS chapter. James Gaylord, an unofficial leader of SDS, tried to form an wae wet ewe Wee ee Oe aU Gwe vw 2s organization without official approval. His first demand was better seating for students at university sporting events. Gzylord's demands and tactics do not bear a resemblance to the Gisruption led by the Columbia SDS in which the New York university agreed to abandon construction on a multi-millicno dollar gymnasium located in a city park. The apparent successor “to the SDS chapter at Memphis State is a ‘Human ‘Re ations.Club'* headed by 26-year-old Army veteran Victor A. § . Mr. Smith says, "He hasn't decided! wheather to push f 9 confrontation 2 ass aa we NS 2 ED a conirontaticon with the university or to try to gain support through mass meetings and leaflets. He has busied himself this summer organizing DRUM, the Draft Resistance Union of Memphis. Every Wednesday, the group of about 12 reads the names of local residents killed in Vietnam on the steps of some public building. Sometimes it is the Federal Building. At other times it is the First National Bank Building at Third and Madison in Memphis, Bute stresses he does not advocate illegal resistance." ee ee rae Sr a The story states that "His rhetoric also has logical _ inconsistencies built in.” "He talks of the ills of the American system and its - inequities. He says the faults of the system are built into it and cannot be reformed, But when he is asked whther a 5 qs fee aa i ee