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Robert Treuhaft: FSM legal counsel (part 4 of 5)
Call Number: CE 698Format: 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 4.
Robert Treuhaft: FSM legal counsel (part 5 of 5)
Call Number: CE 699Format: 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 5.
J. Frank Coakley: Alameda County District Attorney
Call Number: CE 700Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interview with Alameda County District Attorney J. Frank Coakley about legal issues surrounding the FSM from a prosecution perspective, and how his office became involved around the sit-ins of December 2-3, 1964.
Deputy District Attorney Edwin Meese
Call Number: CE 701Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interview with Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Edwin Meese on the Sproul Hall sit-in and the events that brought in police and State Highway Patrol. He discusses the criminal violations he says were committed and “riotous conditions” created by students. He states there was no police brutality whatsoever and that students attacked officers. He states that university representatives were consulted about outside police presence but that outside police have jurisdiction over the campus. He denies that actions were taken to restrict press access.
Assemblyman Donald Mulford: 16th Assembly District
Call Number: CE 702Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Assemblyman Mulford watched many of the arrests that took place at Sproul Hall on December 2nd and 3rd and talks about what he saw. This recording illuminates some of the details behind the decision to send in police to break up the sit-in. Mulford describes student leaders as “militant”, “profane”, “defiant”; talks about recognizing the hardcore leadership from other local protests and justifies the decision to use the police by claiming there would have been “bloodshed in the morning” and “mob violence” had the police not intervened. He answers questions about the autonomy of the university, allegations of physical mistreatment by students against the police, faculty support of students, the political make-up of the FSM leadership and the importance of this issue in the next election.
Mario Savio- A Study in Charisma and FSM Court Comedies
Call Number: CE 703Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
The first part of the tape is entitled Mario Savio a Study in Charisma and is the story of Mario Savio who rose from a normal student to the leader of the Free Speech Movement. This short documentary includes of number of excerpts from Mario’s speeches. He gives a chronology of the FSM, links it to larger struggles for civil rights, and argues that students are fully competent to challenge educational tyranny. Included is a speech in which Mario says goodbye to his leadership position in the FSM and the palpable dismay of the crowd. At the end of the program are selections of FSM supporters singing Happy Birthday to Mario as well as FSM parodies of the traditional songs “Comfort and Joy” and “Hallelujah: Glory of the Coming of the Cops.” The second part of the tape is entitled Court Comedies: A collection of humorous memories and scenes from recent trials of students at the University of California Berkeley. Following their arrests at the Sproul Hall sit-in, many students faced heavy fines and/or jail time as well as academic sanctions from the University. This segment details the cases of four specific students, recaps some of the humorous testimony and verbal exchanges during their university trials and discusses the students’ sentences. The tape concludes with Professor Thomas Parkinson reading a letter supporting the students to the committee trying the cases.
Clark Kerr- Multi-versity
Call Number: CE 704Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Colin Edwards interviews the president of UC Berkeley Clark Kerr about his idea of multi-versity. Multi-versity basically describes the changing role of the university in society and Clark Kerr’s desire to further establish links to business and industry, expand the bureaucracy of the university and lessen its emphasize on abstract ideas and exploration and increase its role as a knowledge factory. Within the interview, Kerr discusses the role of professors, undergraduates vs. graduate students, the role of research, the role of universities in society, the role of truth and morality at the university, the autonomy of the university, educational reform on campus and the role of the president as the mediator in the multi-versity.
Clark Kerr Excerpts
Call Number: CE 705Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
This recording contains excerpts from Clark Kerr taken from interviews and speeches. Most of the focus is on the FSM, his concept of the mulit-versity and the state of universities in society.
*Tape should be played sparingly to ensure preservation
Academic Senate Debates 1
Date: 12/8/1964Call Number: CE 706Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
The discussion revolved around the proposal of the senate's academic freedom committee endorsing the Free Speech Movement's basic positions on the disciplinary proceedings and the time, place, and content of speech and advocacy.
Lewis Feuer of philosophy and Nathan Glazer of sociology opposed the committee's proposal. Feuer offered an amendment that committed the university to nonintervention in matters of speech and advocacy only when they were "directed to no immediate act of force and violence."
Academic Senate Debates 2
Date: 12/8/1964Call Number: CE 707Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Continuation of previous recording. The discussion on the resolution and the amendment continues as various professors speak for and against the motions.
