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Listen by Subject: Protests, Rallies & Demonstrations

UCLA Mexican-American Students Symposium (February 22, 1968)

Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4, 1968)

  • Men and women in the Arts concerned with Vietnam: A Benefit for Martin Luther King, Jr. Features the final speech given by Dr. King. (BB4661). Time: 40:00. Download | Stream
  • MLK Jr. Memorial Rally in Central Park, New York City. (BB3172) Time: 1:03:25, 16:56. Download: Part 1, Part 2 | Stream: Part 1 , Part 2
  • Coretta Scott King speaks at a rally three weeks after the assassination of her husband. From notes taken from his pocket, she reads "Ten Commandments On VietNam". (BB156) Time: 21:10. Download | Stream

Columbia University Strike (April 23, 1968)

  • Ayn Rand - Campus or Battleground: A Report on the Events at Columbia University (archives # BB3777.03). Time: 25:00. Download | Stream | Buy Online
  • Columbia University Strike: Marvin Harris, Juan Gonzalez and Stuart Gedal discuss the student upheaval at Columbia; moderated by Dwight McDonald (archives # BB3150) Time: 55:00. Download | Stream | Buy Online
  • Columbia Rally with speakers Mark Rudd (chairman of Columbia SDS), Marty Kanter (student at Columbia) and Ted Gold (SDS) and the original “I.D.A.G.” (archives # BB3534) Time: 15:00. Download | Stream | Buy Online
  • Radicalization at Columbia University, produced by Bob Murphy and Bob Bisom [Contains sensitive language] (archives # BB3542) Time: 34:30. Download | Stream | Buy Online
  • White Response to Urban Riots; with Allan Silver, recorded at Columbia University (archives # BB3546) Time: 23:00. Download | Stream | Buy Online

Poor People's Campaign, Washington DC (May 2,1968)

French Student Strike, Paris (May 3, 1968)

  • France Four Years after the Days of May, reported by Daniel Singer (BC0826). Coming Soon...
  • Mary Alice Waters, reporter for The Militant and Young Socialist, interviewed by Mike Olfe (BB3547). Coming Soon...
  • Interview with a French student leader (BB1770). Coming Soon...
  • Jean Dube: discussion with the President of JCR, the French youth group that led the strike that paralyzed France (BB3536). Coming Soon...
  • The Left in France: Francois Mitterand interviewed (BB1482). Coming Soon...
  • Jenny Batlay: French artist and poet talks about her work and her generation (BB4517). Coming Soon...

Democratic National Convention, Chicago (August 25, 1968)

  • A Day in the Park: 1968 Festival of Life. Narrated by William Malloch. Recorded at the Festival of Life in Chicago, which led to the infamous trial of the Chicago Seven. Includes music and audio of confrontation with police (archives # BB4160a, b). Time: 80:00. Get Details | Download | Stream | Buy Online.
  • A Night in Chicago: Documentary on demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention. Produced by Elsa Knight Thompson. (BB2159). Time: 47:27. Download | Stream | Read Transcript (.pdf)
  • The rally on Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, in support of the demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, reported by Denny Smithson and Steve Clark (BB1791). Coming Soon...
  • Theater of Ideas, a series of talks about the 1968 Democratic National Conventions: Robert Lowell, John Kenneth Galbraith, Tom Hayden, Jeremy Lardner, and Murray Thompson (archives # BB3198). Download | Stream | Buy Online

Delano Grape Strike (September, 1965–1970)

  • 1968 California Grape Strike, reported by Nanette Rainone (BB3904). Time: 45:00. Download | Stream
  • Cesar Chavez speaks about the Delano Grape Strike (BB2358). Time: 30:29. Download | Stream
  • Dolores Huerta, Vice President of United Farm Workers: discussion of the Delano Grape Strike (BB3554). Coming Soon...
  • Barbed Wire Man: Excerpts from a rally protesting maltreatment of migrant workers. (BB3885). Time: 56:21. Download | Stream

Mexico City Olympics (October 1, 1968)

  • H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin): discussion of revolution, militancy, Black Politics and the politics of sports; includes discussion of the Olympic games in Mexico City. (BB5324). Revolution Rewind Moment | Buy Online
  • Off the Victory Stand; John Carlos, seven years after the Mexico City Olympics (BC2744).
  • Democracy Now! February 15, 2002. Olympic medalist John Carlos speaks about Olympic protest, past and present. (PZ0450.100).

Berkeley Protests (December 1968)

  • UC Berkeley, Sproull Hall Sit-in, 1968 (BB2365). Time: 110:00. Download: a, b | Stream
  • Civil disaster in Berkeley and the American Civil Liberties Union, moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson, with Paul Halvonik, Malcolm Burnstein, Stephen Goldstein and Ken Kawaichi (BB1792). Coming Soon..
  • Haight-Ashbury Street Sit-In: actuality and eyewitness reports of the anti-war demonstration, and the violence which followed when the police arrived to break it up; reported by Elsa Knight Thompson (BB1789). Coming Soon...
  • Is Draft Resistance the Answer? David Harris, Joan Baez, Ira Sandperl: three speeches calling for draft resistance to help end US involvement in the Vietnam War. (BB1766b). Time: 52:33. Download | Stream
  • Mr. and Mrs. David Harris and the Resistance (BB4590). Time: 50:00. Download | Stream
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Santa Rita: speech at a demonstration supporting anti-war activist Joan Baez and others imprisoned for blocking the Oakland draft induction center. (BB1460). Time: 23:00. Download | Stream | Buy Online

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