Buffalo Nine

Beyer, Gross, and Kronberg and the other defendants informed the court that it was necessary to resist an "immoral, illegal, racist, politically insane war on the Vietnamese people."

[6][9] At the second trial, Malak, Yates, and Berry angered the judge and others by raising their fists in power salutes when introduced to the court, guaranteeing a contentious atmosphere.

[6] During that raid six men were arrested, three on the street corner and three inside the offices, and charged with various misdemeanors, all of which were later dropped or reduced to disorderly conduct.

A symposium in September 1968 to discuss the Buffalo Nine case drew prominent New York City intellectuals such as Susan Sontag.

Hundreds of students stormed the campus and set fire to buildings that housed a US Navy research project.

[5][4] "What started out as a peaceful, non-violent demonstration against the war and the Selective Service System, ended in a violent fist-swinging melee.

I maintain to this day that this was precisely what the government had in mind when it sent thirty-two police officers to arrest two draft resisters ..." (Bruce Beyer)[12] An article appeared in the Magazine Section of the Buffalo Evening News, December 18, 1988, with extensive detail about the case and also covering the 20-year reunion, in Buffalo, of some of the defendants.