FTA Show
The FTA Show (or FTA Tour or Free The Army tour), a play on the common troop expression "Fuck The Army" (which in turn was a play on the army slogan "Fun, Travel and Adventure"), 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 first conceived by Howard Levy, an ex-US Army doctor who had just been released from 26 months in Fort Leavenworth military prison for refusing orders to train Green Beret medics on their way to the Vietnam War. Levy convinced actress Jane Fonda who recruited a number of actors, entertainers, musicians and others, including the actors Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and Michael Alaimo, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory and soul and R&B singer Swamp Dogg (Jerry
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FTA Show
The FTA Show (or FTA Tour or Free The Army tour), a play on the common troop expression "Fuck The Army" (which in turn was a play on the army slogan "Fun, Travel and Adventure"), 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 first conceived by Howard Levy, an ex-US Army doctor who had just been released from 26 months in Fort Leavenworth military prison for refusing orders to train Green Beret medics on their way to the Vietnam War. Levy convinced actress Jane Fonda who recruited a number of actors, entertainers, musicians and others, including the actors Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and Michael Alaimo, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory and soul and R&B singer Swamp Dogg (Jerry
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The FTA Show (or FTA Tour or F ...... ry for Peace & Justice (EIPJ).
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Ticket from FTA performance in Monterey, California
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Ticket from FTA performance in Monterey, California 1971
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Alan Myerson, Francine Parker and Nina Serrano
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Fred Gardner, James Skelly, Elaine Elinson, Louis Wolf and Bill Belmont
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Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, ...... l Henriques and Yale Zimmerman
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Jules Feiffer, Carl Gottlieb, ...... ina Serrano and Pamela Donegan
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Swamp Dogg, Holly Near, Len Ch ...... imone and Country Joe McDonald
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1971-12-22
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Political vaudeville
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North Carolina, California, Wa ...... n, the Philippines, and Hawaii
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FTA Show
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United States Servicemen's Fund and Entertainment Industry for Peace & Justice
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1971-03-14
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Touring
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The FTA Show (or FTA Tour or F ...... R&B singer Swamp Dogg (Jerry
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