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ATridule ta the People of Catilorna
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY POST OFFICE BOX 109
REVELLE COLLEGE LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA 92037
May 8, 1968

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Medical Center

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Fellow Nobel Laureate:

I have now received replies from 36 persons and the contribu-
tion total is nearly $6000.

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After considerable criticisms from various people I am enclosing =D
another proposed statement which I hope you will all be able to sub-
scribe to. It is very difficult to make a complicated statement and _

have many agree to it.

I should like to get this matter settled in the near future,
and I hope that those of you who have indicated in one way or another
that you would be willing to sign the statement will immediately
contact me if you have serious objections to the present one.

I am also sending this letter to those who did not reply. I

do not wish to pressure anyone into action of this kind, but if you
have merely overlooked the matter I should be glad to hear from you.

Sincerely yours,

Marvell € Mey

Harold C. Urey j

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(36 people replied; 35 agreed, though 3 did not wish to sign, and
one disagreed in principle.)
May 8, 1968

Suggested statement:

We abhor the circumstances of the death of Martin Luther
King, Jr., and grieve at the silencing of his eloquent
humanitarian voice. We honor him as one who attempted to
increase the brotherhood of man, and as one of those who in
. the words of Alfred Nobel “have conferred the greatest benefit

on mankind."

We jointly make a gift to the Southern Christian
Leadership Foundation as a tangible expression of our hope
and belief that America's besetting problem can be solved

by following paths such as that charted by Dr. King.