Guide to the Christopher Jones papers M2983

Gurudarshan Khalsa

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2024

Green Library

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Stanford 94305-6064

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Christopher Jones papers

Creator: Jones, Christopher

source: Prince, Bill

Identifier/Call Number: M2983

Physical Description: 5.8 Linear Feet (10 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, 1 half box, 1 carton, 1 cassette box, and 1 map folder)

Date (inclusive): 1965-2016

Language of Material: English .

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Biographical / Historical

Christopher William "Colorado" Jones (January 12, 1949 - June 29, 2019) was born in 1949 in Palo Alto. He attended the Peninsula School and Pacific High School. Jones was a Vietnam War draft resister and was sentenced to Safford Federal Prison from 1970-1971. Afterward, Jones worked at the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence and later the Agape Foundation. Jones graduated with masters degrees in public health and social work and moved to Seattle. He later moved back to California and died at his home in San Francisco on June 29, 2019.

After his 18th birthday, was a draft resister and worked with several anti-war organizations, including Together, Palo Alto Resistance, and others. He was sentenced to Safford Federal Prison.

After his release, Jones spent seven years as the director of the Agape Foundation, which funded nonviolent social action projects. He later earned a double Masters in Social Work and Public Health at UC Berkeley and moved to Seattle in 1987 to work as a health administrator. He was especially proud of being on the Washington state Governor's Task Force on HIV/AIDS, which created Washington's first large-scale HIV treatment programs. While in Seattle he met his future husband, Bill Prince.

He and Bill moved to San Francisco in 2012, and the following year Christopher organized the reunion of draft resisters that was the beginning of the film, The boys who said no.

Orgs: Together, Palo Alto Resistance, Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, Agape Foundation,

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence, notes, newsletters, underground newspapers, school documents, legal documents, audiovisual materials, and photographs. The materials document Christopher Jones activity as a Vietnam War draft resister, political prisoner, and draft counseler. A significant portion of the materials consist of correspondence during Jones' time as a draft resister at Safford Federal Prison. There are also materials documenting Jones' work with the Palo Alto Resistance, Together Magazine, the Agape Foundation, and the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. Additional materials consist of Jones' correspondence with fellow draft resisters and anti-war activists.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Christopher Jones papers (M2983). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States

Draft resisters

Political prisoners

Draft registration

Draft resisters -- United States -- Counseling of

Nonviolence

Communal living -- United States

Prince, Bill

Harris, David, 1946-

Agape Foundation

Institute for the Study of Nonviolence

Kehler, Randy

Cooney, Robert

Box 1, folder 1

The Peninsula School

Box 1, folder 2

Pacific High School - student reports: Mexico trip 1967

Box 1, folder 3

Pacific High School - literary magazines 1965-1967

Box 1, folder 4

Pacific High School - catalogs

Box 1, folder 5

Pacific High School - academic reports and diploma 1965-1967

Box 1, folder 6

Pacific High School

Box 1, folder 7

High school organizing 1968-1971

Box 1, folder 8

High school organizing - Free High School

Box 1, folder 9

High school organizing - non-registration 1969-1980

Box 1, folder 10

High school Resistance materials 1968-1969

Box 1, folder 11

Palo Alto Resistance - high school organizing

Box 1, folder 12

ROTC draft counseling 1967

Box 1, folder 13

Loose notes

Box 1, folder 14

Resist: galleys for publication

Box 2, folder 1

Draft counseling - draft information packets

Box 2, folder 2

Resistance photographs

Box 2, folder 3

Resistance photographs

Box 2, folder 4

Plain Rapper (product of Palo Alto Resistance) 1969

Box 2, folder 5

The Resistance and other miscellaneous papers

Box 2, folder 6

War Resisters League

Box 2, folder 7

A study kit for nonviolent revolution

Box 2, folder 8

Draft resistance

Box 2, folder 9

Together 1969-1970

Box 2, folder 10

Together 1969-1970

Box 2, folder 11

Together - high school organizing experience report 1969

Box 2, folder 12

Together - correspondence 1968-1969

Box 2, folder 13

Together 1969-1970

Box 2, folder 14

Correspondence with friends and family 1966-1971, 1981

Box 2, folder 15

Correspondence 1970

Box 2, folder 16

Selective Service file 1969

Box 2, folder 17

Letter to draft board 1967

Box 2, folder 18

Trial: FBI report and teacher character references 1967

Box 2, folder 19

Indictment 1967-1969

Box 2, folder 20

Newsletter after arrest 1967

Box 3, folder 1

Government's proposed instructions 1970

Box 3, folder 2

Questions for lawyers

Box 3, folder 3

Notes for defense 1969

Box 3, folder 4

Trial - drafts of questions for witnesses' testimony

Box 3, folder 5

Notes for testimony

Box 3, folder 6

Letters to supporters 1969-1970

Box 3, folder 7

Statement at sentencing

Box 3, folder 8

Court documents 1968-1970

Box 3, folder 9

General trial statistics

Box 3, folder 10

The Whitehorn case

Box 3, folder 11

Guide to draft trials and defending yourself

Box 3, folder 12

Notes for pamphlets on draft trials

Box 3, folder 13

Transfer request 1970

Box 3, folder 14

Life in prison

Box 3, folder 15

Prison Law Project 1971

Box 3, folder 16

Letter to the U.S. Surgeon General reporting on medical conditions at Safford

Box 3, folder 17

Safford prison 1970-1971

Box 3, folder 18

Parole 1970

Box 3, folder 19

Correspondence 1968-1971

Box 3, folder 20

Mail received at Safford September, 1970

Box 3, folder 21

Mail received at Safford October, 1970

Box 4, folder 1

Mail received at Safford November, 1970

Box 4, folder 2

Mail received at Safford December, 1970

Box 4, folder 3

Mail received at Safford - Christmas cards (1 of 2) 1970

Box 4, folder 4

Mail received at Safford - Christmas cards (2 of 2) 1970

Box 4, folder 5

Letters from Safford 1970

Box 4, folder 6

Race to prison and other essays 1976

Box 4, folder 7

Prison literature

Box 4, folder 8

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Pisces 1970

Box 5, folder 1

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Aries 1970

Box 5, folder 2

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Taurus 1970

Box 5, folder 3

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Gemini 1970

Box 5, folder 4

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Cancer 1970

Box 5, folder 5

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Leo 1970

Box 5, folder 6

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Virgo 1970

Box 5, folder 7

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Libra 1970

Box 5, folder 8

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Scorpio 1970

Box 5, folder 9

Zodiac (daily calendar used for marking time in prison) - Sagittarius 1970

Box 5, folder 10

Information about Safford, Arizona

Box 5, folder 11

Connections - California Prisoners' Union 1971

Box 5, folder 12

"Days of Gandhi" daily calendar 1969

Box 5, folder 13

"Days of civil disobedience" daily calendar 1970

Box 5, folder 14

Institute for the Study of Nonviolence 1969-1976

Box 5, folder 15

Institute for the Study of Nonviolence 1969-1973

Box 5, folder 16

Institute for the Study of Nonviolence

Box 6, folder 1

Agape Foundation 1972-1975

Box 6, folder 2

Agape Foundation 1973-1982

Box 6, folder 3

Agape Foundation 1976-2009

Box 6, folder 4

Agape Foundation

Scope and Contents

Also includes materials on other subjects.

Box 6, folder 5

Bread and Roses 1977-1980

Box 6, folder 6

Bread and Roses 1974-1977

Box 6, folder 7

Refusal of clemency 1974

Box 6, folder 8

Ninth Circuit Draft Digest 1971

Box 6, folder 9

Articles on trials 1968

Box 6, folder 10

Committee for Legal Research on the Draft 1971-1972

Box 6, folder 11

New York Civil Liberties Union: the legal revolution in Selective Service cases 1970

Box 7, folder 1

May 1: Day of Conscience

Box 7, folder 2

The nine for peace

Box 7, folder 3

CCCO newsletters 1970-1973

Box 7, folder 4

Movement literature (1 of 5) 1965-1976

Box 7, folder 5

Movement literature (2 of 5) 1965-1976

Box 7, folder 6

Movement literature (3 of 5) 1965-1976

Box 7, folder 7

Movement literature (4 of 5) 1965-1976

Box 7, folder 8

Movement literature (5 of 5) 1965-1976

Box 8, folder 1

Movement literature

Box 8, folder 2

Win magazine 1970-1974

Box 8, folder 3

Win magazine 1970-1974

Box 8, folder 4

The anti-Vietnam War movement in California, Paul David Tuff 2000

Box 8, folder 5

The Peacemaker newsletters 1970-1972

Box 8, folder 6

People's Life Fund - war tax resistance

Box 8, folder 7

Farmworkers

Box 8, folder 8

Pacific Change - consultants to foundations 1971-1972

Box 8, folder 9

Peoples Union

Box 8, folder 10

Project Harbor 1968-1971

Box 8, folder 11

Moratorium 1969

Box 8, folder 12

Peoples College of Law - application essay

Box 8, folder 13

Pacific Studies Center

Box 8, folder 14

Graphics

Box 8, folder 15

Resisters: Paul Obluda - "Warren Camp in the Hole"

Box 8, folder 16

Letters from friends and resisters 1969-1973

Box 9, folder 1

Gary Shoemaker 1972

Box 9, folder 2

Ed Peddy

Box 9, folder 3

Stewart Burns - thesis on the Resistance

Box 9, folder 4

Stewart Burns 1970-1975, 2000

Box 9, folder 5

Resisters: Johnathan Bell - letters from Lompoc 1969

Box 9, folder 6

Resisters: Rick Boardman 1970

Box 9, folder 7

The power of the people press materials

Box 9, folder 8

Robert Cooney 1974-1994

Box 9, folder 9

Robert Cooney - court papers 1971-1972

Box 9, folder 10

David Harris 1968-1997

Box 9, folder 11

Photographs of David Harris and other resisters

Box 9, folder 12

Resisters: Randy Kehler

Box 9, folder 13

Questions for Randy Kehler

Box 9, folder 14

Randy Kehler - trial testimony 1970

Box 9, folder 15

Randy Kehler manuscript

Box 10, folder 1

Randy Kehler's prison manuscripts (1 of 4) 1969-1971

Box 10, folder 2

Randy Kehler's prison manuscripts (2 of 4) 1969-1971

Box 10, folder 3

Randy Kehler's prison manuscripts (3 of 4) 1969-1971

Box 10, folder 4

Randy Kehler's prison manuscripts (4 of 4) 1969-1971

Box 10, folder 5

Jerry Elmer 2005-2013

Box 10, folder 6

Letters to Dan Balderston 1969-1977

Box 10, folder 7

McKenzie River Gathering 1978, 2001

Box 10, folder 8

America history - New York draft riots

Box 10, folder 9

English 400 journal 1976

Box 10, folder 10

Notes for talks

Box 10, folder 11

Chapters from Christopher Jones' manuscript

Box 10, folder 12

Chapter 4b - fictionalized version of Institute for the Study of Nonviolence

Box 10, folder 13

Introductory notes - thoughts from 1970

Box 10, folder 14

New narrative

Box 10, folder 15

Struggle Mountain - recollections

Box 10, folder 16

Court Tefft - the Resistance recollections 2009

Box 10, folder 17

Art Zack

Box 10, folder 18

Marty Harris recollections of prison 2009

Box 11, folder 1

Struggle Mountain and The Land reunion

Box 11, folder 2

The Land reunion

Box 11, folder 3

Safford reunion 2009

Box 11, folder 4

Resistance reunion 1981

Box 11, folder 5

Los Angeles Resistance reunion 2009

Box 11, folder 6

Anti George W. Bush bumper sticker 2004

Box 11, folder 7

Indie GoGo look back 2016

Box 11, folder 8

Binder: L.A. Resistance and Safford reunion 2009

Box 12, audiocassette 1

Randy Kehler April, 2004

Box 12, audiocassette 2

Randy Kehler - narrative from memoirs April, 2004

Box 12, audiocassette 3

Randy Kehler - La Tuna stories

Box 12, audiocassette 4

Randy Kehler - La Tuna

Box 12, audiocassette 5

Randy Kehler - III April, 2004

Box 12, audiocassette 6

Randy Kehler and Christopher Jones April, 2008

Box 12, audiocassette 7

Art Zack interview - LA Resistance draft resister (Safford)

Box 12, audiocassette 8

Safford August 11, 1972

Box 12, audiocassette 9

Protest!!

Box 12, audiocassette 10

Stewart Burns April, 2004

Box 12, audiocassette 11

Rain Burns and Gail Zermeño interview May, 2008

Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Christopher Jones. Reminiscing about the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, Joan Baez, David Harris, The Land, and Struggle Mountain.

Box 12, audiocassette 12

Rain Burns and Gail Zermeño interview May 30, 2008

Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Christopher Jones. Reminiscing about the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, draft resistance, Joan Baez, The Land, and Struggle Mountain.

Box 12, audiocassette 13

Rain Burns at Pescadero - regarding hitching to S. America

Box 12, audiocassette 14

Stewart Jack, J. and Ch.

Box 12, audiocassette 15

Bob Cooney

Box 12, audiocassette 16

Robert Cooney May, 2008

Box 12, audiocassette 17

Michelle Bondi - continuation

Box 12, audiocassette 18

Michelle Bondi - high schools peace organizer

Box 12, audiocassette 19

Random notes

Box 12, audiocassette 20

Ahimsa vs. agape

Box 12, audiocassette 21

Pacific Change at Claire's

Box 12, audiocassette 22

Pacific Change at Claire's

Box 12, audiocassette 23

Mandy Carter and L.L. Welks June 27, 2016

Box 12, audiocassette 24

Banc [sic] 1st birthday, Joan - Jeffery; Lou Motisedu [sic]

Box 12, audiocassette 25

Parents: the fundamental relationship

Box 12, audiocassette 26

unlabeled cassette

Box 12, audiocassette 27

Unlabeled cassette

Box 13, reel 1

Reel from Vietnam Veterans Against the War California Regional Office

Scope and Contents

The reel came in a case with a post-it reading, "3/14/23 Can't figure out what this is - no text, a series of images, cracked window, trees, a woman, a girl?". The case also was addressed to Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, Box 1001, Palo Alto, California 94302. Attention: WUI Kirkland (Special 4th class library rate). The ship from address is: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Calif. Regional Office, 3503 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif., 90019".

Box 13, reel 2

P.A. draft refuser support potluck

Box 13, reel 3

Original prison film?

Scope and Contents

The title including the question mark was on a post-it on the reel.

Box 13, videotape 4

Super 8mm home movies transferred to VHS at the request of Chris Jones

Box 14, folder 2

Newspapers about the Vietnam War and the draft 1964-1967

Box 14, folder 1

Life magazine 1964

Box 14, folder 3

Scrapbook 1967-1980

Box 14, folder 4

Letters, drawings and paintings by Christopher Jones from Safford Prison 1970

Box 14, folder 5

Posters, brochures and newsletters

Scope and Contents

Includes a poster for a "Conference on the draft" at Glide Memorial Church, a poster for resistance benefit dance at the All Saints Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, an excerpt of a letter from Randy Kehler, a copy of Revolution volume 1 issue 3, and a brochure for the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence

map-folder 15

Bread Not Bombs Palo Alto poster