ABSTRACT
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was a conservative youth organization created in 1960 with the assistance of movement leader and intellectual William F. Buckley. It grew rapidly on college campuses in the early 1960s and rallied around causes like the Newburgh anti-welfare plan. Fierce libertarians and anticommunists, the students, here from Hunter College, opposed the welfare state, and helped make Joseph Mitchell a hero for conservatives around the United States. This photo was originally published in the Middletown, New York, Record. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203707418/366bcfdf-97b1-4bff-8619-bba37b20ad3e/content/doc12_page128-01_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
