2010.54.9168

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An Open Letter
An Open Letter
1961
22.50 in HIGH x 17.50 in WIDE
(57.15 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.9168

Top center: "The New York Times, Tuesday, December 19, 1961". | Bottom center: "We, memebers of the academic staff of University, Colleges and Research Institutes in the New York metropolitan area, join in the above statement first issued by scholars in the Cambridge- / Boston area. This advertisement was paid for by individual contributions of the signatories (Institutions listed for identification only). We regret that numerous other signatures could not be / accommodated for lack of space and time. / For reprints of this page write The Civil Defense Letter Committee, P. O. Box 577, New York 27, N. Y. ".





Poster is printed on newsprint. At the top of the poster is black text that reads: "An Open Letter To / President Kennedy And Governor Rockefeller". The remaining text is an explaination of greivances about the current state of civic defense against nuclear warfare. The bottom two-thirds of the poster contains five columns of signatures from peope who are dissatified.
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