The Oleo Strut was a GI Coffeehouse located in Killeen, Texas, from 1968 to 1972. Like its namesake, a shock absorber in the landing gear of most large...
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set up other coffeehouses, Josh Gould and Janet "Jay" Lockard stepped in to become the principle operators of the soon to open Oleo Strut. The name was...
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The Shelter Half (category GI Coffeehouses)
attending the coffeehouse by placing it on a list of off-limits places. The Shelter Half closed in the summer of 1974. Oleo Strut GI Coffeehouses United States...
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United States Servicemen's Fund (category GI Coffeehouses)
individual coffeehouses start up. Robert Zevin became the organization's treasurer and office manager while Josh Gould, one of the founders of the Oleo Strut coffeehouse...
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Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War (section GI coffeehouses & underground press)
and fall of the GI Coffeehouse movement, describing places like the UFO just outside Fort Jackson in Columbia, SC; the Oleo Strut at Fort Hood in Killen...
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Under the Hood Café (category GI Coffeehouses)
Poetry Slam. The coffeehouse closed its doors in 2015. Under the Hood Cafe described itself as being part of the tradition of The Oleo Strut, a famous GI...
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Three" incident) and the War on Terror. From 1968 to 1973, the Oleo Strut was a G.I. coffeehouse located near post in Killeen, Texas. The coffee house was...
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meetings took place, including the Oleo Strut, where Zeiger worked as a teenager. "The GIs turned the Oleo Strut into one of Texas's anti-war headquarters...
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David Cline (activist) (category GI Coffeehouses)
civilian organizer of active duty servicemen at one of the first GI Coffeehouses, the Oleo Strut, in Killeen, Texas and producing a one-sheet underground newspaper...
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forcing the performances into the relatively small local GI Coffeehouse, the Oleo Strut, whose maximum legal capacity was 250. With people "sitting on...
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one of the strongest forces against the war." He worked at the Oleo Strut GI Coffeehouse in Killeen and for the next two years found himself "in the heart...
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distributing it throughout New England. In late 1968 Sharlet visited the Oleo Strut, the highly activist GI coffee house, and nearby Fort Hood in Killeen...
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between 1968 and July 1972. The paper along with the local antiwar coffeehouse, The Oleo Strut, became "one of the most consistently successful organizations...
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