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Advanced Searching
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Keyword Searches
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Colin Edwards Collection

The Freedom Archives is honored to contain hundreds of programs on many topics produced by Colin Edwards. Colin Edwards (1924–1994) was an outstanding internationalist journalist and writer who created a huge body of work. Colin came from Wales and was a fervent Welsh nationalist. Following service in WW II, he became a combat correspondent in Malaya, then in Burma, Indochina and Korea. Later, as an independent journalist with Canadian Broadcasting, the BBC and Pacifica Radio among others. He did important on-the-scene interviews and documentaries on anti-imperialist national liberation struggles in the Middle East, especially Palestine, on Asia, particularly Vietnam, and on many other struggles, including the civil rights, Black Power, and student antiwar movements in the US.  Edwards also worked closely with Moshe Menuhin—a prominent Jewish anti-Zionist (and the father of world-famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin).  The interviews with Moshe Menuhin are in the Archives collection, as is all of the audio work of Colin Edwards, with the exception of interviews and writings on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, which reside in the National Library of Wales.  The collection was entrusted to the Freedom Archives by Mary Edwards, his widow, who lives in Oakland.

Documents

November 30th Revolt: Participant reflections November 30th Revolt: Participant reflections
Date: 11/30/1966Call Number: CE 743Producers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Leo Bach, general manager of the Berkeley Free Press, who had been in the downstairs of the student union on 11/30/66. He describes the series of events that unfolded around student opposition to a Navy recruitment table, police violence (including encouraging violence by football players against progressive students), and arrests. Interviews with several students who were present and describe their experiences with police violence and the variety of police forces and agencies present, including the FBI. Leo Bach’s interview plays at 7½ ips while the rest of the tape is 3¾.
Sproul Hall Rally: 11/4/66 Sproul Hall Rally: 11/4/66
Date: 11/4/1966Call Number: CE 749Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Campus rally: first half focused on Vietnam War, second half on the university moving the designated rally area from the Sproul Hall steps to the lower plaza. Speakers include Bettina Aptheker, Campus Conservatives president Dan Rosenthal, and Mario Savio.
Sacramento Rally Sacramento Rally
Call Number: CE 788Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Audio from a rally in Sacramento against tuition and budget cuts. Unnamed speakers talk about lowering the voting age to 18, oppressed people, tuition and budget cuts, minimum wage on campus, unionizing, and other issues. The tape ends with a performer singing about Governor Reagan and the future of the university, making fun of Reagan as an actor and governor.