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Auction archive: Lot number 160

Help Murder Police” – holographic poetic speech plea to end the Vietnam War

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$900
Auction archive: Lot number 160

Help Murder Police” – holographic poetic speech plea to end the Vietnam War

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$900
Beschreibung:

Title: “Help Murder Police” – holographic poetic speech plea to end the Vietnam War Author: Ginsberg, Allen Place: United States Publisher: Date: [1972] Description: 5 autographed pages (on 4 leaves), with typed note on first page “Horrible War in Indochina, Bombtonnage, Billions Spent, Deaths Wounds Refugees Ecologic Damage.” Rest all hand-written by Ginsberg, begins: “Pin this on your Wall (Wake Up! Wake Up! – [crossed out]). Vote for Mass Murder? Electronic Automated Battlefield against oriental human beings? This is Nixon’s War: $60 Billion Bombs you call??? Is this our prosperity???…Don’t Vote for Nixon…”. A poetic plea for the defeat of Nixon and the end to the brutality of the war in Vietnam. This may have been just a poem or was an outline for a speech. Last leaf provides statistics for casualties, the wounded and refugee numbers. Lot Amendments Condition: Light age wear, else fine. Item number: 168816

Auction archive: Lot number 160
Auction:
Datum:
9 Mar 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: “Help Murder Police” – holographic poetic speech plea to end the Vietnam War Author: Ginsberg, Allen Place: United States Publisher: Date: [1972] Description: 5 autographed pages (on 4 leaves), with typed note on first page “Horrible War in Indochina, Bombtonnage, Billions Spent, Deaths Wounds Refugees Ecologic Damage.” Rest all hand-written by Ginsberg, begins: “Pin this on your Wall (Wake Up! Wake Up! – [crossed out]). Vote for Mass Murder? Electronic Automated Battlefield against oriental human beings? This is Nixon’s War: $60 Billion Bombs you call??? Is this our prosperity???…Don’t Vote for Nixon…”. A poetic plea for the defeat of Nixon and the end to the brutality of the war in Vietnam. This may have been just a poem or was an outline for a speech. Last leaf provides statistics for casualties, the wounded and refugee numbers. Lot Amendments Condition: Light age wear, else fine. Item number: 168816

Auction archive: Lot number 160
Auction:
Datum:
9 Mar 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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