National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam

National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam

The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a group that became an umbrella anti-Vietnam war group.[citation needed] Members of this group convinced Senator Eugene McCarthy to run in the primaries against Lyndon B. Johnson as an anti-war primary candidate.[citation needed]



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