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Rick Davis: Covering the FSM (part 1 of 2)
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)
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.
Claude Mann: Covering the FSM
Call Number: CE 693Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Claude Mann is a news reporter from Channel 2 in Oakland. Claude recounts his experiences at the FSM protests at Sproul Hall in early October 1964 and then on December 2nd and 3rd 1964. He talks about the atmospheres of those protests, the mood of the students and answers questions about student provocateurs. He details what he saw at the December 2nd and 3rd sit-ins and arrests and comments on whether or not the aisles were blocked, whether or not the police were unnecessarily rough, his feelings on mainstream news coverage of the FSM, the issue of branding the leadership of the FSM as communists and the absence of Black students from the arrests and sit-ins. Mann’s commentary around the press coverage of the events is especially interesting as Colin and him discusses differences between print and tv journalists and their coverage, limitations of coverage and the attitude of reporters towards the FSM.
Wallace Turner: Covering the FSM
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.
Robert Treuhaft: FSM legal counsel (part 1 of 5)
Call Number: CE 695Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interview with Oakland attorney Robert Treuhaft, who served as legal counsel to the Free Speech Movement beginning in October 1964, and was arrested in the December 2 sit-in at Sproul Hall. He discusses the events of October to December 1964 and their ramifications from a legal standpoint. Part 1.
Free Student Union Rally: 7/29/65
Date: 7/29/1965Call Number: CE 729Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Rally related to the trial of students involved in FSM activity. Speakers include student senator-in-exile Nicholas Zvegintzov, UC San Diego professor Avrum Stroll on the role of a public university in a democratic society, Mario Savio announcing a court support rally and discussing the importance of self-education, David Kolodny of the Free Student Union introducing Professor Thomas Parkinson, who speaks on lessons of the past year, legal issues and handling the “long haul of responsibility.” A letter of solidarity is read from labor union leader Leonard Levy. Bettina Aptheker speaks on the political nature of the charges against students and about receiving a letter from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Announcements from the Vietnam Day Committee.
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.
November 30th Revolt: Participant reflections
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.
Robert Treuhaft: FSM legal counsel (part 2 of 5)
Call Number: CE 696Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interview with Oakland attorney Robert Treuhaft, who served as legal counsel to the Free Speech Movement beginning in October 1964, and was arrested in the December 2 sit-in at Sproul Hall. He discusses the events of October to December 1964 and their ramifications from a legal standpoint. Part 2.
Robert Treuhaft: FSM legal counsel (part 3 of 5)
Call Number: CE 697Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interview with Oakland attorney Robert Treuhaft, who served as legal counsel to the Free Speech Movement beginning in October 1964, and was arrested in the December 2 sit-in at Sproul Hall. He discusses the events of October to December 1964 and their ramifications from a legal standpoint. Part 3.
