Correspondence concerning complaints that the Labour Party and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament hired hecklers to sabotage public meetings addressed by the Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home at Watford and Leeds, and other incidents of organised heckling including Birmingham, Doncaster and Wandsworth, during the 1964 general election campaign

Title

Correspondence concerning complaints that the Labour Party and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament hired hecklers to sabotage public meetings addressed by the Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home at Watford and Leeds, and other incidents of organised heckling including Birmingham, Doncaster and Wandsworth, during the 1964 general election campaign

Shelfmark

CCO 20/17/2/13

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Blakenham, Lord, Party Chairman (1963-1965)

Boulton, David, Press Officer, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Williams, AL[Len], General Secretary, Labour Party (1962-1968)

Includes:-

Witness statements concerning organised attempts to disrupt the Prime Minister's speech to Leeds University Students' Union, 06/10/1964

Copy of newsletter, Forward with the Young Socialists, ND [cSep 1964]

Extract from The Daily Telegraph dated 09/10/1964

Extract from The Birmingham Post dated 10/10/1964

Date

1964

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file