Tom Hayden died from complications related to a . He was a member of Document 86A: Casey Hayden (aka Sandra Cason) and Mary King, "Sex and Caste," November 18, 1965, Michael Finnegan (October 23, 2016). From a working class family in Royal Oak, Michigan, a student and alter boy in the arch conservative Father Coughlins Temple of the Little Flower, Tom became editor of the prestigious Michigan Daily and, after reporting on the new Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the early 60s, the civil rights bus boycotts and sit ins in the South, he stepped out from behind his notepad and became an organizer and builder of movements. Mostly, we felt fortunate for having known him. Save my name, email, and website in this browser cookies for the next time I comment. Forty years would pass before I would experience again the hope I had before August of 1968, before we would dance in the streets again, as so many did when Obama was elected. He was able to whisper to me the day before he died that seeing people willing to die for their beliefs changed him forever. In the Three Cultures Plaza you gathered to meet. Nicholas Lemann, the former Dean of Columbia Journalism School declared that "Tom Hayden changed America". Used by permission. He had a non-rhetorical way of putting big new ideas together so that people sawthemselvesin the narrative. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. And because of you, and what you've been through. JFK in 1963, followed by Martin Luther King then Bobby Kennedy in 1968. A powerful critic of Stalinism in Russia, Sakharov suggested a middle way between Communist dictatorships and capitalist inequality. Known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayden was the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity. [47] Former U.S. President Bill Clinton memorialized him, saying, "Hillary and I knew him for more than thirty years and valued both his words of support and his criticism."[48]. And by whats known I mean I made that term up, Embracing the Jewish communitys refugee roots, Israel and the Internet Wars A Professional Social Media Review, The Invisible Student: A Tale of Homelessness at UCLA and USC, Youre Not a Bad Jewish Mom If Your Kid Wants Santa Claus to Come to Your House, No Labels: The Group Fighting for the Political Center, VBS Fusion Attracting a Younger Generation, Israeli Pilots Visit Special Needs Center, L.A. Federation Receives Groundbreaking Grant, Ticketmaster Criticism Intensifies After Ignoring Calls to Deplatform Farrakhan Event, White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Kicked Out of CPAC. Used by permission. Kennedy's brother Edward eulogized him simply as a man who "saw wrong and tried to right it, saw pain and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." Troy, edited a wonderful opening video calledWho the Hell is Tom Hayden? and then started everything off with an emotional, funny and welcoming speech that really set the perfect tone. On Sunday Keep your eyes on the prize was a watchword, for few had done it better than he. Would love your thoughts, please comment. The IPC, operating in Boston, New York, Detroit and Santa Clara, mobilized dissent against the Vietnam War and demanded unconditional amnesty for U.S. draft evaders, among other aims. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. The SDS was the vanguard of the student unrest that characterized the decade of the 1960s. Back in Superior, my friends and I watched troubling news on television, when on August 21, Soviet tanks crushed the democratic uprising in Prague. He was 76. . Bobby Kennedy was listening (and so too was Martin Luther King Jr.). Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that "Tom Hayden changed America", calling him "father to the largest mass protests in American history", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, "without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society. To illustrate the cultural impact that the Port Huron Statement had, we were able to get clips fromMad Men and the film,The Big Lebowski in which characters talked about the document and howcool it was. Hayden was the lead author of the Port Huron Statement, a 1962 student manifesto that served as a foundation for protests against the Vietnam War. [21] Six months after the convention, he and seven other protesters including Rennie Davis, Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't. Then, we sat in stunned silence while Johnson announced his withdrawal from the race. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. With the size of the crowd, it was difficult to flee. But that night we dashed by the hundreds into the streets cheering, singing and dancing. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass celebrates it's 20th anniversary with an online broadcast titled Let The Music Play On. The fee has been established at several dozen colleges, and it may be used "to provide support for governmental affairs representatives of local or statewide student body organizations who may be stating their positions and viewpoints before city, county, and district governments, and before offices and agencies of state government". They had marched there from several universities to protest the upcoming Olympic Games, which had displaced hundreds of poor Mexico City residents from their homes. He had come to trust Bobby, despite the latter's wealth and establishment connections. He can be reached through his website: www.johndegraaf.com. Kristy Edmunds, Director of UCLAs Royce Hall, wrote this to me after the memorial. Bonnie Raitt performs 'Angel From Montgomery' with Jackson Browne at the 2022 Billboard Women In Music Awards. There's a feeling of change in the winds that blow. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 - October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. Bonnie Raitt Wins Song of the Year for Just Like That at Grammy Awards. Napalm, a terrifying jellied gasoline that cooked people alive, was dropped indiscriminately. Chapter 1238 enacted Section 76060.5 of the California Education Code. He didn't; in November, Hubert Humphrey lost by a whisker to Nixon. There's a generation looking for a new beginning, And our sparkling eyes and songs prophesize, Are adding our bodies to the protest line. So, hope you like it ? Most of the thousand or so gathered this past Sunday afternoon at UCLAs Royce Hall were grey( not greying) boomers, though a younger cohort also showed. He was a bum, Hayden critic Anthony Imperiale of the Newark Citizens Committee was shown saying to a burst of laughter and applause in Royce Hall. [32], Hayden later served in the California State Assembly (19821992) and the State Senate (19922000). You watched them in the sky. For maybe tomorrow you'll wake up and find, The long years of sorrow were worth all the pain, For all of your struggles have been left behind. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. Hayden was in Newark, working on an anti-poverty project, when the riots broke out in which 26 people were killed. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Stream/purchaseHERE. Fifty years have passed since the one that changed everything for my generation, the crucial turning point when the promise of the 1960s turned to a defeat and despair that still weighs on our thoughts of what might have been. denied, 410 U.S. 970, 93 S.Ct. The conference was followed by a commemoration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. He evolved from 1961 to 1963 from viewing the . Distributed by ADA. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. There was just cool and uncool. Some of her friends were killed; she watched their blood darken the stones in the plaza before finally escaping the violence. For here we are, an imperious American administration in full tilt, and a Sixties- style movement of popular resistance aborning. Hayden and Fonda were a major force in California politics in the 1970s and 80s, and Hayden went on to represent the liberal Westside in the state Assembly and Senate for 18 years. All rights reserved. I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. I Cant Make You Love Me : A 25th Anniversary Oral History, MUSICIANS ON MUSICIANS Bonnie Raitt & Brandi Carlile, Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt Tree-Sit In Protest, Together we can make this a great community and make many new friends. For the last 4 months, Toms widow Barbara Williams, Troy Garity, my son with Tom, and I have been working together to create a memorial that honored and celebrated Toms 6 decades of commitment to peace, justice and democracy. It seemed to be emerging in places like Sweden and Czechoslovakia. For three years in Newark, he worked with a community union to organize poor black residents to take on slumlords, city inspectors and others. By Robert D. McFadden. It was bitterly cold in the snowy streets of Madison that night, but none of us noticed. [40], Hayden maintained that he remained radical towards the end of his life, commenting, "I'm Jefferson in terms of democracy," he said, "I'm Thoreau in terms of environment, and Crazy Horse in terms of social movements". There were people who were part of creating the seminal Port Huron Statement on which Tom was the lead writer and editor the document that laid out in beautiful, even soulful, language an entirely new vision of what a Democratic society would look like. It was her only positive memory of the games. [40] He also claimed that he never endorsed Sanders and only supported his campaign with the hope that it would push Clinton's policies leftward. Two years later, he would be elected president of Chile, thus setting off a three-year American effort to destabilize his government. In broken and halting English, she told me a story. Suddenly it was possible to believe again, but the forces of hate and greed did not go quietly into that magic night. I was impressed by Kennedy's compassion for the poverty-stricken miners of Appalachia, the Hispanic farm workers of California and their charismatic leader, Cesar Chavez, inner-city African-Americans and the hidden poor on Indian reservations. [8], Tom Hayden was elected SDS president for the 19621963 academic year, but his wife Sandra Cason "Casey" Hayden left Ann Arbor, and left him, heeding the call to return to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta. In a discussion about the book with Theodore Hamm published in the Brooklyn Rail, Hayden argues, "The apparatus of occupation is never going to turn into a peacekeeping economic development agency. Proceeds from the album will benefit twelve different non-profit organizations, one selected by each of the featured artists. Tom Hayden, in full Thomas Emmet Hayden, (born December 11, 1939, Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.died October 23, 2016, Santa Monica, California), American activist and author. Bobby Kennedy Jr spoke about Toms Irishness and why the Kennedy family asked Tom to be one of the pall bearers at Robert Kennedys funeral. Fonda recalled meeting Hayden at one of her slide presentations against the Vietnam War. Hayden was a teaching assistant at the University of Michigan Journalism Department in the early 1960s. I will summarize some of what I said at the memorial because I think it speaks to what needs to happen today in this country: I spoke of my 17 years with Tom which began in 1972 when the peace movement was flagging after years of repression and sectarian divisiveness. Haydens critics and there were many were given voice in a couple of video snippets, including one that focused on his three years of community organizing in poor black sections of Newark in the mid-60s. Tom Hayden, Contributor. Since it was often impossible to know which Vietnamese were loyal to us and which were not, it was deemed necessary to kill everyone who might be suspect, destroying whole villages to "save" them. He served 18 years in the California legislature and has written 175 articles of legislation covering domestic violence, gang violence, student fee hikes and the protection of endangered species. Bonnie Raitts latest Grammy-winning song was recorded in a Bay Area studio, The Meaning Behind Bonnie Raitts Grammy-Winning Song Just Like That, Stunning Win for Bonnie Raitt at the Grammy Awards, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Quavo Shine a Light on Fallen Legends in Grammy Tribute Performance. He was a troublemaker, and to this day hes a troublemaker., Troy Garity, the son of Hayden and Fonda, told the crowd it was slightly difficult being the son of a communist radical and Hanoi Jane, and having our house lit on fire well, not really, but almost., He choked up about video footage showing cops beating up his father and paid tribute to everybody in the movement who lost somebody.. He believed in change. But he'd stuck with Johnson on the war. SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 8 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda,. Cesar thought for a few moments and then said, It only makes sense if you build a movement out of your campaign structure when its over.And that became CED: The California Campaign for Economic Democracy that got scores of progressives elected to state and local offices and many measures passed like Prop 65. It was held in a cavernous auditorium with perhaps a thousand people in attendance. "[3], Hayden grew up attending a church led by Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest noted for his anti-Semitic teachings, and who was also known nationally during the time of The Great Depression as the "radio priest". My 22 yr old son Cameron gave his whole. Women and gays were protesting discrimination. Hayden died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams, noting that he suffered a stroke in 2015. http://img.youtube.com/vi/Z2Br1RWvYxg/0.jpg, Tom Hayden, a prominent leader of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements died Sunday at the age of 76. Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar James Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion, backing vocal Glenn Patscha:rhodes piano (nord), backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar. He had changed the lives of most present such was the power and personality of Tom Hayden. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. "The radical inside the system: Tom Hayden, protester-turned-politician, dies at 76.". Progressive values. The chant Push that rock is realism for radicals and reformers today. Following Barbaras song, members of theFirst AME Choir Tom Morello, Holly Near, Bonnie Raitt and James McVay and myself joined Barbara on stage for a rendition of Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn me Around, appropriately ending the memorial with everyone on their feet and singing along. Pallbearers will be the employees of Smith Lumber Company: Murray Abendroth, Chris Stark, Carol Kennedy, Daniel Jarrett, Jason Tatum, Josh Hofstetter, Kevin Stegall, Kenneth Blevins, Jimmy Boyd and Jarren Robertson. Their dialogue was peppered with the N word and references to "good riddance.". All rights reserved. John Moscowitz is rabbi emeritus, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto. I would watch the audience hanging on his words as he broke their hearts open and then filled them with hope and new understanding. And dreaming of a time when all humankind will be free. Arhoolie Foundation celebrates it's 60th anniversary (1960-2020) with an online broadcast. He was 76. Pre-order/Pre-save Just Like That now: https://lnk.to/justlikethat_br Stream here: https://lnk.to/somethingsgotaholdofmyheart, Credits: Produced by Bonnie Raitt Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Freeland, Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitarJames Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion , backing vocal Glenn Patscha: clavinet, piano, electric piano, backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar George Marinelli: electric guitar, backing vocal. Feel free to republish and share widely. I never saw Luz again after that night. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, the senators family picked Tom Hayden to be an honorary pallbearer at the funeral because the young antiwar activist embodied the great hope that my father had in the future of our country, Robert Kennedy Jr. recalled Sunday night at a memorial for Hayden. Sam & Dave classic written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. The battle inside and out stretched into the night. [29] He also was revealed to have developed a friendship with Sen. Robert Kennedy, and served as one of the pallbearers for Kennedy's casket during Kennedy's funeral. The sense of satisfaction in recalling a life of consequence, together with others whod been there, was palpable. Both spoke of how Tom had believed in them despite their troubled pasts. She later recalled that in contrast to the interminable debates she had witnessed in Ann Arbor, in SNCC discussions the focus was on action and women had a voice. I always wanted to explore the Holocaust on a deeper level. Shockingly, I also overheard several fraternity boys at one table suggesting that King had gotten what was coming to him. Instead, he died reviled and almost forgotten. After initially resisting widespread calls for him to run as a candidate in the 1968 election, Bobby finally announced his candidacy from the Caucus Room of the Old Senate Office building, the same place his late brother . During the next week I could barely contain my grief. Hed gotten beat up by police in Mississippi and gone to jail for his beliefs in Georgia, Kennedy told the audience at UCLAs Royce Hall. A month later, a year that began with great hope, ended with little. Yes, I can do more! Tom Hayden talks about creating social change as it happened in the 1960s and how it can happen today. [5] The Haydens divorced in 1965. The result of this tour of North Vietnam, at a high point in the war, was a book titled The Other Side. While at home for a month, I read constantly--the literature of the New Left. . You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Now, the leading living scion of one of America's most beloved political families was also hammering Johnson from the campaign trail. In her version, in pushing the rock we become stronger, not weaker. Hayden was in the vanguard of the 1960s counterculture movement, a radical who led civil rights and antiwar protests and later became a prolific author and member of of the California Legislature. Her name was Luz, which means "light" in Spanish, but her story was decidedly dark. Their protest was completely peaceful, but the response of the police and guardsmen sent by the government to control them was not. Bobby Kennedy Jr spoke about Tom's Irishness and why the Kennedy family asked Tom to be one of the pall bearers at Robert . Throughout his career, Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts franchise) has portrayed several historical characters to high praise: Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Lile Elbe in The Danish Girl, and James Glaisher in The Aeronauts.This year, he's done it again and worked his magic with a compelling performance as Tom Hayden in The Trial of the Chicago 7. [3] As a result, when he graduated in 1956,[4][1] he was banned from attending his graduation ceremony and only received a diploma.[3]. (Photo: Screenshot), The Year That Changed Everything: A Personal Memory of 1968. The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. 1992Mighty Nice Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp., Songs of Windswept Pacific (BMI) administered by BMG Rights Management (US), LLC. Bombing those fields took on a new meaning.. Tom Hayden, the famed 1960s anti-war activist who moved beyond his notoriety as a Chicago 8 defendant to become a California legislator, author and lecturer, has died. "Shot him in LA last night just as he was about to claim victory.". No other year has left such vivid memories for me, though it may be that this year, 2018, will be even more decisive for the future of America. Students were beginning to exercise power in American universities, carrying out sit-down strikes at prestigious academic institutions like Columbia. DeWayne, born in Watts, and Alex who as a child immigrated from El Salvador to escape the bloody civil war that ravaged his mother county. It depicts their travels through North and South Vietnam in spring 1974.[24]. During 2001, he unsuccessfully sought election to the Los Angeles City Council. United States v. Dellinger, 472 F.2d 340 (7th Cir. Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate, was a mixed bag at best, in the thinking of my friends and myself. Peoples Park Protest & Riots, Speeches Tom Hayden, Mario Savio. Tom died last October surrounded by people who loved him.