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
FTA Show at a GI coffeehouse in 1971
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
FTA Show
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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
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…defending." Fonda returned to the Oleo Strut with actor Donald Sutherland on September 18, 1971, for several abbreviated versions of their then touring FTA Show (the anti-USO show), which had been denied any larger Killen venue by the increasingly hostile local establishment. Fonda's visit of May 11, 1970, gave…
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.
Jane Fonda and Michael Alaimo