1968 Writers and Editors War Tax Protest

[jbor at bigpond.com]

In 1968 Pynchon was one of 447 signatories to the "Writers and Editors 
War Tax Protest". Full page advertisements in the _The New York Post_ 
and _The New York Review of Books_ listed the names of those who had 
pledged not to pay "the proposed 10% income tax surcharge or any 
war-designated tax increase", and stated their belief "that American 
involvement in Vietnam is morally wrong".

_New York Review of Books_. "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" 
(advertisement). Vol. 10, No. 3, 15 February 1968, p. 9.

Other signatories included M.F. Beal, Candida Donadio, "J. Kirk Sale" 
(i.e. Kirkpatrick) and Faith Sale (wife?). The ad is headed up by a 
longish excerpt from Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' (1849), denouncing 
American involvement in the Mexican War.

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