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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JOMICE ~ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION * in Reply, Piease Refer to File He “ Eoston, Massachusetts une 9, 1972 At 11:30 dems ON May 15, 1971, Special‘'Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (BI) observed approximately t 1250 white males and females and seven Negro males-and females oseassemble on Robeson Street Extension, Fayetteville, North 9 fe eee near the Haymarket Square Coffee House, 545 Hay Ce cree This was a counter-Armed Forces Day rally sponsored “py Git 8 United Against the War in Vietnam. This group to (maxche ed «with a a police escort to J. Bayard Clark Paxk, where. 1 maz skort talks were given against the war in Vietnam. ent = a z= aS A source, who has furnished reliable information NN Shin the past, advised on May 15, 1971, that the rally moved wife) inte the Haymarket Sauare Coffee House due to inclement d)- a weather. An individual in this rally identifying himself Syeg as Howard Zinn, author and orofe 2gs9r at Boston University, yok Boston, Massachusetts, spoke to a cxowd of about 150 persons stating that “the United States had lost its sense cf purpose tn condemning tre crime of civil disobedience. here and ™ toleratt ing and accepting the crime of this nation's action in Indochina." No incidents or arrests were observed during the maich or rally and the crowd was orderly, A second source, who has furnished reliable infomation in the past, advised o on May 24, 1971, that Howard Zinn was among the demonstrators on “May 6, 1971, at the John F. Remnedy Federai Buliding, Boston, Massachusetts, pretesting the war in Vietnem. This demonstration la: “pevores cee on pee pe eat bet we tee te eet se tee sarees iw sae