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From the ACLU Archives

The links below are to documents about Ben Salmon that are contained in the archives of the ACLU that are maintained at Princeton University Library. The home page of the Guide to the American Civil Liberties Union Records is at https://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=330597&p=2219325. Records related to WW! Concscientious Objectors are in Subgroup 1, The Roger Baldwin Years which is found at ​https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC001.01/c000001.

The documents found below have been somewhat cleaned up from the originals found in the Princeton archives. The cleaning was to enhance readability and was accomplished by straightening, changing contrast and removing black areas. The documents were also passed through an optical character recognition program to enable the text to be searchable. The program used was ocrmypdf. Optical character recognition does an amazing job of finding words but does not capture everything so some text difficult for a computer to read will still be human readable.
Abbreviations used:

ACLU       American Civil Liberties Union (successor to NCLB)
BJS           Benjamin Joseph Salmon
NCLB       National Civil Liberties Bureau (predecessor to ACLU)
RNB          Roger Nash Baldwin, director of NCLB and ACLU
WN          Walter Nelles, counsel for NCLB
WandV    Whitehead and Vogl, Denver attorneys hired by BJS
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BJS Telegram to NCLB and reply     Jan 7, 1918

BJS Letter to NCLB     Jan 10, 1918

BJS Letter to Miss Crystal Eastman Jan 16, 1918

RNB Letter to BJS     Jan 10, 1918

BJS Letter to NCLB     Jan 16, 1918


RNB Letter to BJS     Jan 22, 1918

Denver Times article on BJS Trial     Feb 12, 1918

BJS Letter to National Socialist Party     Mar 11, 1918

RNB to National Socialist Party     Mar 18, 1918


National Socialist Party to RNB     Mar 15, 1918

BJS Letter to RNB     Mar 4, 1918

BJS Letter to RNB     Mar 21, 1918


WN Letter to BJS     Mar 22, 1918

RNB Letter to BJS     Mar 26, 1918

BJS Letter to WN     Mar 28, 1918

WandV Assignments of Error     Mar ?, 1918


WandV Letter to WN     Mar 28, 1918

BJS Letter to RNB     Apr 1, 1918


BJS Letter to RNB     Apr 23, 1918

​WN Letter to WandV     May 1, 1918

Whitehead Telegram to WN and reply    May 19, 1918

WandV Letter to WN      May 23, 1918




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WandV Letter to Camp Funston Commanding Officer May 25, 1918

BJS Letter to RNB     Jul 30, 1918

BJS Letter to RNB     Aug 11, 1918

BJS Letter to WandV     Dec 12, 1918

  • Home
  • About Ben
    • Autobiography
    • Unsung Hero of the Great War
  • News
  • Diary
  • Ben's Writings
    • Ben's Magnum Opus
    • Correspondence >
      • With President Woodrow Wilson
    • Pamphlets >
      • Killing The Wrong Men
      • Tax the Rich to Pay for the War
      • Conscripting Profits to Pay for the War
    • From the ACLU Archives
    • From the National Archives
  • Sainthood
    • Letter >
      • Join the petition
    • Additional Signers
  • army of Peace
  • Resources
    • Photo Gallery
  • Memorial for Ben Salmon
  • About Friends of Franz and Ben
    • Friends Origin