Photograping and interviewing leaders and activists in the radical movement of the 1930s has been a main thrust of my career. These included the Radical Elders Oral History Project, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Anti-War Activists
Evelyn Velson
Helped organize Woman for Peace and Women Strike for Peace. “It got so bad—Walter Winchell, on his national radio show, would mention my husband’s name followed by saboteur, espionage agent, communist, then give out our address, and as much as imply ‘go for him.’” Averting nuclear war and establishing world peace have been the major…
Long Time Since Vietnam: Linda’s Story
By Richard Bermack, based on interviews with Linda Wilson in 1990, updated in 2019. San Francisco, 1989 Over calamari and white wine at the Clam House on Bay Shore, a popular seafood restaurant in an industrial section of San Francisco, Linda’s brother mentioned that he was having problems with his kidneys and that the prognosis…