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Civil Liberties (1965-01-27)
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Regional Report #2 deals with the issue of civil liberties and their possible abuses. For a look at various aspects of the issue, NET cameras focus on five areas of the nation San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Athens, GA; and Austin, TX. San Francisco Last fall three thousand students at the University of Californias Berkeley campus rioted in protest at the universitys decision to invoke the little-used ruling limiting political acts such as recruiting and fundraising for off campus causes. Campus organizations, called the rule archaic, and students deliberately violated it. The end result was that eight students were suspended from school. The militant Free Speech Movement, organized by students, pressed its demands, and debate continued into the winter as faculty, administration and student leaders tried to establish new rules for political conduct, discipline and responsibility. David Perlman, reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and regional editor for station KQED, San Francisco, is on hand as students, faculty members, and university officials on both sides of the free speech issue air their views on the controversy. Chicago Hal Bruno, Newsweeks Chicago Bure…
Directors & creators
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Subjects
Free Speech Movement, UC Berkeley 1964, mental institution commitment, involuntary commitment, civil liberties, House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, McCarthyism, Joseph McCarthy, Kefauver investigation, drug industry, Fifth Amendment, National Educational Television, 1960s civil liberties, student protest
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