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The FTA Show, a play on the common troop expression "Fuck The Army", was a 1971 anti-Vietnam War road show for GIs designed as a response to Bob Hope's patriotic and pro-war USO tour. The idea was fir
Rita Martenson, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland
"FTA" was a common troupe expression, as shown in this button from the GI group Movement for a Democratic Military.
Original cast. From left: Gary Goodrow, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Dick Gregory, and Barbara Dane at the Haymarket GI Coffeehouse near Fort Bragg.
Jane Fonda and Michael Alaimo
G.I. coffeehouses
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GI coffeehouses were coffeehouses set up as part of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War era as a method of fostering antiwar and anti-military sentiment within the U.S. military. They were ma
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…author Jules Feiffer and playwrights Barbara Garson and Herb Gardner wrote songs and skits for the show. Fred Gardner, the originator of the antiwar GI Coffeehouse movement, became the Tour's "stage manager and liaison to the coffeehouse staffs." At various times other actors, writers, musicians, comedians and…
Cover page for The Short Times G.I. underground newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina from 1969 to 1972 by GIs United Against the War in Vietnam
The Oleo Strut antiwar GI coffeehouse in 1971. Photo by Alan Pogue
Logo for Fatigue Press, the G.I. underground newspaper at Fort Hood army base in Killeen, Texas from 1968 to 1972