Antiwar protestors take legal action in an attempt to prove that the Dow Chemical Company is still making napalm. Dow had claimed that it had stopped making napalm. Members of the antiwar movement filed suit against the Dow Chemical Company in a Washington, D.C., court. The plaintiffs were trying to force the company to disclose all government contracts to prove that the company was still making napalm.
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Feb 2, 1970:
Antiwar protestors sue Dow Chemical
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This Week in History, Feb 2 - Feb 8
- Feb 02, 1962
- First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam.
- Feb 02, 1970
- Antiwar protestors sue Dow Chemical
- Feb 03, 1955
- Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms
- Feb 03, 1970
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings
- Feb 04, 1962
- First U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam.
- Feb 04, 1965
- Rumors fly about U.S.-Soviet pressure on allies in Vietnam
- Feb 04, 1972
- Last Thai contingent departs South Vietnam
- Feb 05, 1960
- South Vietnam requests more support
- Feb 05, 1975
- North Vietnamese begin preparations for offensive
- Feb 06, 1966
- Johnson meets with South Vietnamese Premier
- Feb 06, 1973
- ICCS take up positions
- Feb 07, 1965
- U.S. jets conduct retaliatory raids
- Feb 07, 1971
- Operation Dewey Canyon II ends
- Feb 08, 1962
- MACV established
- Feb 08, 1971
- Operation Lam Son 719 begins
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