This is a video commemorating the 40th anniversary of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy‘s announcement that he would run for president as an anti-Vietnam War candidate. McCarthy’s opposition was a major force in the anti-war movement of the 1960s. The video contrasts McCarthy’s opposition to that war with our current situation in Iraq and asks who will be our next Gene McCarthy.

The video and the web site devoted to McCarthy were produced by Vance Opperman, the man who led the 1968 McCarthy campaign on the U of M campus. I created the web site.