[BykrBayb]

Do you have the exact citation of the article in the picture, ie, the date of it?

According to wintersoldier.com, it was April 1972. I've always just taken it for granted that they verified the date. I did some googling, hoping to back that up, but I'm more confused than when I started. The 1st paragraph of the article refers to Champaign police responding to a protest that had subsided to a sit-in on the day the article was written. The 4th paragraph says the protests occurred outside a formal dinner celebrating the centennial of the Engineering Department at the University of Illinois. So I went the website for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering. Their About The College page says

"The College of Engineering was one of the original units when the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) opened in 1868."
That would have put kerry's speech in Bryant Park some time in 1968, not 1972.

[rwfromkansas]

Who is the dude on FR who runs this.....need to check this out.

[FourtySeven]

That would have put kerry's speech in Bryant Park some time in 1968, not 1972.

Indeed it would. I trust the wintersoldier.com website, believe me! I'm not trying to discredit them. That article though would be damning for Kerry, since it would show that he did indeed have a connection with the VVAW organization even AFTER they met to conspire to assasinate U.S. Senators, in 1972 (I believe that's when that meeting was). He said he left the VVAW after that meeting, but this would show he didn't, IF the date could be verified. That's why I was asking.

Of course, I'm sure others smarter than me have tried that already, so that's probably why that article isn't front page news, so to speak, in conservative circles.

At any rate, very interesting thread. Thanks for getting back to me!