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![Rick Davis: Covering the FSM (part 1 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 691Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interview with prominent television reporter, writer and producer Rick Davis about his experiences reporting on the FSM. His coverage began with the car top rally in October 1964 and continued through the Sproul Hall sit-in in December. He is critical of some student viewpoints and tactics, with an especially harsh assessment of Mario Savio, but describes himself as being strongly invested in free speech and accurate reporting, and exposes many of the distortions and fabrications that were present in his colleagues’ reporting, such as invented reports of break-ins and vandalism. He describes police violence, and their attempts to discourage press coverage. He discusses the various political factions on campus and the role that right-wing students held within the FSM.
![Rick Davis: Covering the FSM (part 2 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 692Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Continuation of interview with television reporter Rick Davis. Davis discusses his admiration for the discipline displayed by student organizers. He discusses the role of the FSM in overall campus party politics, and the responses to the FSM and campus events by state politicians and public figures.
![Wallace Turner: Covering the FSM](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 694Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
The first part of this tape is an interview with the West Coast correspondent with the New York Times. He discusses the Sproul Hall sit-in, the nature of the protest, the nature of the students, what did the inside of Sproul Hall look like and other topics. He re-enforces the dominant narrative of the establishment by refusing to contradict the official version of accounts from the police and the district attorney. He describes the arrests of the students, talks about the connections between the civil rights movement and the leadership of the FSM and supports Clark Kerr commenting “ he’s done more to protect free speech than any of the protestors.” The second part of the tape focuses on the Jail sentences handed out to students arrested at the Sproul Hall sit-in. Accounts of the students’ experience in Santa Rita Jail are remembered by Hal Draper, Roberta Alexander, Bettina Apickther, and Anita Lavin. Specifically discussed are the conditions inside the jail and the attempts of the guards to separate the prisoners from the students and the politicization of the prisoners.
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