Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden (1939-2016) was a central figure in the Vietnam War peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a founder and president of the Students for a Democratic Society and the principal author of the Port Huron Statement. He was a civil rights worker in the South and a door-to-door organizer in Newark, New Jersey. In 1965 Hayden met with Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi and brought home released American POWs. He was indicted as one of the Chicago Eight for conspiracy to riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1972 Hayden and Jane Fonda founded the national Indochina Peace Campaign organization. He was elected to the California legislature and wrote twenty-two books.