A nine-page typewritten document contains a roster of officers and member groups of the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations as of June 15, 1970.

A three-page mimeograph contains a copy of the standing rules of the committee on credentials of the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations as of Oct. 15, 1968. They are typed in two columns per page.

A seven-page, credentials covering letter, dated June 15, 1970, contains applications for voting accreditation at the sixth annual meeting of the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations in August, 1970.

NACHO bulletin from May 13, 1969 by Foster Gunnison Jr. to the Credentials Committee. Concern is expressed over the slow rate of completion of pre-accreditation requirements. There is a discussion of possible western representatives for the Credentials Committee and acknowledgment of the controversial nature of the Credentials program. A list of Credentials Committee members is included.

A three-page, mimeographed memo, dated April 10, 1970, forwards a letter from Bob Martin, an officer of the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations, explaining personal difficulties that have prevented him from working with the group; and containing an account of his cross-country trip, visiting local homophile organizations.

A mimeographed bulletin, dated 8/14/70, from the credential committee of the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations, contains information on those fully or partly registered for an annual meeting in San Francisco.

Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial “Timely . . . gripping, explosive . . . the kind of obsessive forensic investigation—of the clues, and into the soul of society—that is the legacy of highbrow sleuths from Truman Capote to Janet Malcolm.”—The New York Times Book Review The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid by a mob of young black men in a township outside Cape Town. Her parents’ forgiveness of two of her killers became a symbol of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa. Justine van der Leun decided to introduce the story to an American audience. But as she delved into the case, the prevailing narrative started to unravel. Why didn’t the eyewitness reports agree on who killed Amy Biehl? Were the men convicted of the murder actually responsible for her death? And then van der Leun stumbled upon another brutal crime committed on the same day, in the very same area. The true story of Amy Biehl’s death, it turned out, was not only a story of forgiveness but a reflection of the complicated history of a troubled country. We Are Not Such Things is the result of van der Leun’s four-year investigation into this strange, knotted tale of injustice, violence, and compassion. The bizarre twists and turns of this case and its aftermath—and the story that emerges of what happened on that fateful day in 1993 and in the decades that followed—come together in an unsparing account of life in South Africa today. Van der Leun immerses herself in the lives of her subjects and paints a stark, moving portrait of a township and its residents. We come to understand that the issues at the heart of her investigation are universal in scope and powerful in resonance. We Are Not Such Things reveals how reconciliation is impossible without an acknowledgment of the past, a lesson as relevant to America today as to a South Africa still struggling with the long shadow of its history. “A masterpiece of reported nonfiction . . . Justine van der Leun’s account of a South African murder is destined to be a classic.”—Newsday