October 2: Polarization and Repression

·         Excerpt from Freedom Under Fire: U.S. Civil Liberties in Times of War

·         Conspiracy to Oppose the War in Vietnam by Benjamin Spock Excerpt from It Did Happen Here by Schulz and Schulz (see Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority as companion piece to this

·         Nixon: If Mob Rule Takes Hold in the US

·         Tom Hayden on Chicago 7 trial

 

Recommended readings:

·       FBI Electronic Reading Room  1000s of documents from more than 150 declassified FBI files made available due to Freedom of Information Act. Includes files on SNCC, murder of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner, Black Panther Party, Weather Underground. As usual, too much blacked out in the supposed interest of national security.

·       The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

·       Chicago Seven Trial (this is astonishing testimony, truly Kafka-esque)

·       Declassified Documents on the American Indian Movement

·       A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority

·            U.S. Senate’s Church Committee (1976) findings: Using Covert Action To Disrupt And Discredit Domestic Groups

·       Excerpts from the Church Committee on Cointelpro (1000 pages of the 4000 pages of the Committee evidence) and Excerpts from COINTELPRO—see table of contents for specifics http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm

·       COINTELPRO - Puerto Rican Independence Movement

·         COINTELPRO - Black Liberation Movement

·       COINTELPRO’s program to destroy the Black Panther Party

·                          COINTELPRO - New Left

·         COINTELPRO - AIM

·       COINTELPRO 1960s – files on Jean Seburg, actress targeted for “neutralization” by the FBI

Murder of Fred Hampton (Chicago Illinois)

·       Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg from Presidential Decisions and public dissent series

·       Nixon video highlights

·       When Nixon Met Elvis – exhibit from the National Archives; bizarre=Elvis offers his assistance to the war on drugs and against hippies

·       Conservative Perspectives on Rock Music  

·       Ronald Reagan, Freedom vs. Anarchy on Campus

·      Hard Hat Riots (1970): An On-line History Project

·       Chronology of Kent State Shootings

·       May 4 Collection, Kent State University

·       “It Couldn’t Go On Like This:” Jim Vacarella Describes Events Leading Up to the Kent State Shootings

·       John Birch Society perspective on the student movement and Vietnam http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/below/berkeley_vietnam_day.htm  (Berkeley) and http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/ http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/below/youth.htm (Rubin and Kent State)

·       Wallace (1968)

·       Remembering George Wallace  Another Perspective on Wallace

·       Map of Wallace vote, 1968

·       Wallace Quotes      

·       Perspective on National Review conservativism lamenting the death of the veiled racist voice