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There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
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Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Leila Khaled - Part 1 Leila Khaled - Part 1
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CE 218Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Khaled details the events of August 29, 1969 when she and another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. She explains the PFLP strategy to target US imperialism by preventing tourism and weapons from entering occupied Palestine. Includes detail about her house arrest and later release in Syria, her family's violent expulsion from Haifa in 1948, teaching for six years in Kuwait, the socialist ideology of the PFLP, the prominence of women in leadership, and the cooperation of Palestinian resistance movements operating in the occupied territories. Also criticizes Israel for masquerading as a socialist state, mentions the CIA's attempted assassinations of Palestinian revolutionaries, torture in Israeli prisons and Israeli targeted killings of Palestinians.
Leila Khaled - Part 2 Leila Khaled - Part 2
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CE 219Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Khaled details the events of August 29, 1969 when she and another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. She explains the PFLP strategy to target US imperialism internationally by preventing tourism and weapons from entering occupied Palestine. Includes detail about her house arrest and later release in Syria, her family's violent expulsion from Haifa in 1948, teaching for six years in Kuwait, the socialist ideology of the PFLP, the prominence of women in leadership, and the cooperation of Palestinian resistance movements operating in the occupied territories. Also criticizes Israel for masquerading as a socialist state, mentions the CIA's attempted assassinations of Palestinian revolutionaries, torture in Israeli prisons and Israeli targeted killings of Palestinians.
Leila Khaled Leila Khaled
Date: 10/1/1969Call Number: CD 708Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An introduction with Colin Edwards followed by Khaled detailing the events of 29 August when she and another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. She explains the peaceful nature of the hijacking and the PFLP strategy to target US imperialism internationally by preventing tourism and weapons from entering occupied Palestine. Includes detail about her 44 day house arrest and release in Syria, two male Israeli prisoners in Syria from TWA flight 840, her family's violent expulsion from Haifa in 1948, teaching for six years in Kuwait, the socialist ideology of the PFLP and how it differs from other socialist revolutions, the prominence of women in the PFLP, and the cooperation of different Palestinian resistance movements while operating in the occupied zones. Also criticizes Israel for masquerading as a socialist state, mentions the CIA's attempted assassinations of Palestinian revolutionaries, torture in Israeli prisons and the killings of Palestinian revolutionaries.