Restored Audio
Authors / Literature
Individuals
James Baldwin
Talk at the San Francisco Masonic Auditorium, James Baldwin, 1965-BB0370.
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An Interview with James Baldwin, interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson, 1963-BB0632
The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, James Baldwin, 1962-BB3641
James Baldwin on Angela Davis, interviewed by Joe Walker and George Cain, 1972-BC0642
James Baldwin interviewed by Chris Koch, 1967, PRA# BB4513
Ray Bradbury
Remember the Dreamers, Ray Bradbury, 1975 BC2896
Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction Writing Philip K. Dick interviewed by Mike Hodel, 1979 KZ0727
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp, 1978 KZ0782. Read Transcript
Aldous Huxley
The Final Revolution / Aldous Huxley, 1959 PRA# BB0055
Alice B. Toklas
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1963 -BB1178
Interview with Annette Rosenshine, childhood friend of Alice B. Toklas interviewed by Lou Hartman, 1968 -BB1837
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1970 -BB3971
Alice Walker
Author Alice Walker Reads “Roselilly” -AZ1010
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Denise Oliver
Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver, 1976, WZ0019
Christopher Isherwood
A Personal Statement / Christopher Isherwood, 1962, BB0893.02
Carlos Casteneda
Don Juan : The Sorcerer / Carlos Castaneda ; interviewed by Theodore Roszak, 1969, BB2038
Jerzy Kozinski
Ronny Watkins talks with Jerzy Kozinski, 1968, BB3283
Leroi Jones
Interview with Leroi Jones / interview by Earl Anthony, 1968, BB4613
Collections
Brecht in Hollywood produced by David Ossman, 1963 PRA# BC1162
The Art of Writing / Eudora Welty, Charles Brooks, and S. Hongl, 1963-BB3681
The Female Angst / Anais Nin, Joan Didion, and Dory Previn interviewed by Sally Davis, 1972 BC0611 AB. Read Transcript
An Evening with Anais Nin interviewed by Judy Chicago, 1972-BC0619
No, No Artaud, 1966 -BB0920
D.H. Lawrence at Taos / Spud Johnson interviewed by Erik Bauersfeld, 1967-BB1835
From the Coconut Grove Kenneth Anger and Susan Sontag, 1967BB1847
Simone de Beauvoir in conversation with Studs Terkel; narraged by Janet Dodson, 1977 – PRA# KZ0125
The Negro in American Culture (James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry), 1961 PRA# BB3297
Two Short Stories read by William Styron and James Baldwin, 1963-BB3684
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Battles, Feasts and Solitudes / Collette ; produced by Maureen McIlroy, 1975, BC2369
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, 1975, BC2069.15
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Cinema Studies
Individuals
Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin, interviewed by Claire Clouzot, 1968 -BB5186
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando on the Caryl Chessman execution. PRA# BB1597
Mel Brooks
A Talk by Mel Brooks, 1972 -BC0739
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola, 1967 - PRA #BB3805.08 AB
Dame Edith Evans
Dame Edith Evans, 1968 - PRA #BB3821.03
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Conversations with Sir Cedric Hardwicke / interviewed by Colin Edwards, 1961 - PRA #BB1098
Rita Hayworth
San Francisco Film Festival, Rita Hayworth, 1972 -BC1466.09
Alfred Hitchcock
Making Mystery Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964 - PRA #BB0992
Lena Horne
Lena Horne interviewed by Gene Dealessi, 1966 PRA# BB0921. Read Transcript
John Houseman
The Tendency of the Mass Media to corrupt works of art / John Houseman, 1967 - PRA #BB1850
John Huston
It’s Not my Work, it’ s my life an interview with John Huston, 1972 -BC1034
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael's last broadcasts, 1963 - PRA #AZ0084
What’s Happened to Film Criticism, 1963 - PRA #BB0829
The Film Since World War Two, Pauline Kael, 1968 - PRA #BB2116 AB
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff, 1961- PRA #BB0760
Stanley Kramer
An Interview with Stanley Kramer, 1968 -BB5196
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester, Herself, 1968 – PRA# BB1683
David Lean
David Lean with Albert Johnson, 1971- PRA #BB2829.01
Spike Lee
Night Journey interview with Spike Lee by James Graves, 1990 KZ1545
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis on Comedy / interviewed by Herbert Feinstein, 1963- BB1031
Louis Malle
An Interview with Louis Malle interviewed by Milton Hoffman, 1972 -BC0918
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor on Attica, 1972 PRA# BC1030
Jean Renoir
The Film as Art / Jean Renoir interviewed by Dale Minor, 1960- BB0747
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger, 1967 -BB3805.09 AB
The Pawnbroker / Rod Steiger interviewed by Herb Feinstein PRA# BC1108
Max Von Sydow
San Francisco Film Festival Max Von Sydow, 1972 -BC1466.04
Jacques Tati
An Hour with Jacques Tati interviewed by Alan Farley, 1973 BC1491
Jacques Tati, Interviewed by Albert Johnson, 1972 PRA# BC1466.07
Lina Wertmueller
Lina Wertmueller interviewed by Gina Blumenfeld and Paul McIsaac, 1975 -BC2715
Collections
Actuality of the San Francisco Film Festival, 1971-BB2829.02
A Glimpse of Juliet of the Spirits, interviews by David Ossman, 1966 -BB4912
The First Movie Director’s name was Alice / produced by Terry Hodel, 1974 –BC1880
The Inquisition in Hollywood Politics in the Film Community 1930-1960, 1980 KZ1110
Teevee comedy panel / Groucho Marx and Steve Allen, 1961 PRA# BB5006
Inquisition in Eden / Alvah Bessie interviewed by Jack Nessel, 1964 -BB0901
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Hollywood Be Thy Name / written by Jack Hirschman ; produced by David Ossman and Michael Dayton, 1965, BB4594
Bike-boy: Two Superstars / Bruce Haines and George McKittrich ; interviewed by Claire Clouzot and Lee Meyerzove, 1968, BB5249
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Music
Individuals
John Cage
A Conversation with John Cage, interviewed by Richard Friedman, 1970-PRA#–BB4151. Read Transcript
Cage, Music, Talk, Etc, Rauschenberg, Duchamp, Johns, etc, 1965-PRA#–BB4874
John Coltrane
An Interview with John Coltrane interviewed by Frank Kofsky, 1966-PRA# BB1266
Woody Guthrie
Hard Traveling: Woody Guthrie Remembered, 1972-PRA #BC0770
Billie Holiday
Lady Day: Billie Holiday, produced by Gene and Fabs Dealessi, 1967-PRA# BC0674
Victor Jara
I Don’t Sing for Adulation : The Music of Victor Jara produced by Frances Emley, 1975-PRA #BC2953
John Lennon
John Lennon the Political and the Personal, Jon Wiener, 1981 - PRA #KZ1020
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba Interview, da. Unkown PRA#SOS251
Odetta
Odetta, interviewed by Celestine Ware. WBAI, 1971. PRA #BC0047. Read Transcript
Malvina Reynolds
Malvina Reynolds hosted by Howard Larmon, 1975 - PRA #BC2316
Malvina and Dorothy, 1978 - PRA #KZ1151. Read Transcript ~
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Soldier Blue / Buffy Sainte-Marie interviewed by Denny Smithson, 1971- PRA #BC0149
Sun Ra
Interview with Sun Ra, interviewed by Dennis Irving, 1968- PRA #B3287
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson: World Citizen. Interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler, 1958. PRA #BB0534. Read Transcript
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Sweet Honey in the Rock Live Part 1 and 2, da. Unknown- PRA# SOS262 and SOS263
Sarah Vaughn
Sarah Vaughn, interviewed by Herbert Feinstein, 1968 - PRA #BB2012.33
Collections
The Freedom Singers in Berkeley, 1964 - PRA #BB0513
Stravinsky produced by William Malloch, 1972 - PRA #BC0801.01-.03
They Remember Dvorak, produced by William Malloch, 1970 - PRA #KZ1250
I Remember Mahler / William Malloch, da unknown -PRA# KZ2457
Voices a Musical Celebration of the Wild World Parts 1-3 PRA# SZ0516 a b c The Benefit, da. Unkown - PRA# SOS151
WBAI Benefit and Folk Concert, 1967 -PRA# SOS263
WBAI Benefit Folk Music Roll Two PRA# SOS152
Lecture on Bartok, circa 1950’s PRA#SOS250
Hortensia Allende, da. unknown -PRA# SOS253
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Poetry
Individuals
Lawrence Durrell
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell, cir. 1950’s PRA# SOS257
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Streets Kiss / written and read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1956 PRA# BB1881
Existential poems / written and read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1956 -PRA# BB1880
A Coney Island of the Mind / written and read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1956 PRA# BB1882
Robert Frost
Robert Frost reads his own poetry, 1956 – PRA#BB1890
Allen Ginsberg
Why We Can’t Hear Howl Allen Ginsberg, 1987 –PRA# IZ0280
Allen Ginsberg reads his poetry, 1956 –PRA #BB1893
Lewis Hill
“The Window” by Lewis Hill PRA#SOS231
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes / interviewed by Eve Corey, 1963 – PRA#BB3671
Audre Lorde
To Be Young, Lesbian, and Black in the '50s, Audre Lorde, 1982. PRA# KZ1240. Read Transcript
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell in Berkeley, 1957 – PRA# BB1915
Robert Lowell Reading and Commentary circa 1950’s PRA# SOS243
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda in New York, 1972 -BC0970.01 .02
Kenneth Rexroth
Poetry written and read by Kenneth Rexroth, 1957 - BB0977
Kenneth Rexroth on Censorship, 1957 PRA# BB1010
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich, da unknown. IZ0355
Adrienne Rich, 1972 PRA# BC0949.02
Wallace Stevens
Four Poems of Wallace Stevens: Reading and commentary, cir. 1950’s - PRA#SOS239
Dylan Thomas
Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes ready by Dylan Thomas, 1952 -BB1937
Dylan Thomas Reads, 1952 PRA# BB1939
Dylan Thomas Reads, 1952 PRA# BB0958
Sean O’Casey's Autobiography / written and read by Dylan Thomas, 1952 – PRA # BB1938
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams Reading and commentary, Cir. 1950’s PRA#SOS259
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Charles Bukowski
Poetry of Charles Bukowski, 1962, BB4966
Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin Reading Her Poetry, 1971 , BC0224
The Last Poets
The Last Poets: Live at the Harding Theater / produces by Larry Scott, 1971. BC0226
Alta
Alta Performing at the League of Academic Women's Benefit, 1971, BC0477
Men Thought to be the Enemy / Alta ; interviewed by Eleanor Sully, 1971, BC0108
Collections
The Poems of Ghalib a Centennial Celebration ready by Aijaz Ahmad and Adrienne Rich, 1969 BC0238
Panel on Howl, moderate by Pacifica radio founder, Lewis Hill, 1957 – PRA1894
Poems of Marianne Moore read by Lewis Hill PRA#SOS236
Poems of Wallace Stevens part 1 and 2 read by Lewis Hill PRA# SOS238 and SOS237
Five Poems of Robert Lowell read by Lewis Hill PRA# SOS235
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My Father, Robert Frost / Lesley Frost and Will Geer ; introduced by William Gahagan, 1968, BB1832
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Radio Art
Archbishop Oscar Romero last interview, 1987 -PRA#AZ0401
Bob Fass in Chicago, with Phil Ochs and Abbie Hoffman, 1975 PRA# BC2849
The Carlin Case, interviews by Joe Cuomo and Mickey Waldman, 1978 IZ0115
The Conventional Revolution, da. Unkown -PRA# SOS234Final Statement: Tribute to Ida Cox, 1968 -PRA# BB3276
A Talk with Harry Bridges, interviewed by Harold Winkler, 1959 PRA# BB0123
Winkler Acceptance of Peabody Award, 1963 – PRA# BB1505
Frank Lloyd Wright at Berkeley, 1957. PRA# BB1972
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The Salton Sea Disaster, 1958, BB0096.01
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire / written by James B. Stetson ; read by Charles Levy, 1958, BB0096.02
Experiment: Two Ideas / produced by Bill Butler and Bob Fass, 1962, BB3604
A Day in the Park / Narrated by William Malloch, 1969, BB4160
The Changing Culture: From the Panhandle, 1971, BB5256
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Radio Plays
Readings
Budenbrooks written and read by Alexander Scourby and introduced by Thomas Mann, 1959 -BB1009
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo adapted by Milton Hoffman and David Rapkin, 1972 -PRA# BC0825.01-.02
Meeting of Minds / Steve Allen, 1969 PRA# BB2004
Meeting of Minds / hosted by Steve Allen, 1989. PRA# SZ0545
Poems of Richard Eberhart: Read by Lewis Hill 0PRA#SOS242
Rushdie Readings. Introduced by Susan Stone, 1987 PRA #AZ0893
“Section on a Soliloquy” On a poem by Robert Lowell / Lewis Hill - PRA# SOS0232
The Singers Masque: On a Poem by Wallace Stevens, circa 1950’s PRA# SOS260
The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen, 1978 PRA #KZ0849
To Have Done with the Judgement of God, written and read by Antonin Artaud, 1968 –PRA# BB2075
Ulysses by James Joyce adapted, produced and directed by Paul Vangelisti, 1979, PRA # KZ0794
The Undecided Molecule / produced by Ed Borgers, 1992 PRA # SZ0679.04
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The Book of Hags / by Deena Metzger ; adapted and directed by Everett Frost, 1976, BC2920
Panic in Salem: The Radio / produced by Tim Jerome and Charles Potter, 1974, BC2082
The Caucasian Chalk Circle / Bertolt Brecht ; produced by Bruce Gossard and Everett Frost, 1972, BC0910
The Bald Saprano / Eugene Ionesco, 1967, BB4512
Chicken Soup and Barley, 1963, BB0830
The Bride of ESP / written and directed by Jim Armstrong, 1963, BB0925
Dream of a Ridiculous Man / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; adapted by Erik Bauersfeld, 1967, BB5499
Istanbul Express, 1965, BB0926
Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been?, 1973, BC1419
Collections
The Search: Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, 1991 KZ1721
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Theater / Performance
Martin Esslin
The Theater of the Absurd Martin Esslin, 1966 - BB0918
Marcel Marceau
Silent Outcry / Marcel Marceau interviewed by Morgan Upton, 1968 -BB1831
Marcel Marceau Speaks with Gene Bruck, 1960- BB3636
An Interview with Marcel Marceau interviewed by Richard Schechner, 1970-PRA# BB3759
Steve Allen
Meeting of the Minds, narrated by Steve Allen, 1969- BB2004
Teevee Comedy Panel Groucho Marx and Steve Allen, 1961 BB5006
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce: A Profile / Albert Goldman, 1963 -BB0382
Collections
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Catonsville Nine / William Shallert / interviewed by Fred Hyatt, 1971, BC0212
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Visual Arts
An Interview with Taylor Mead and Tom Hompertz interviewed by Claire Clouzot, 1968 BB5201
Educating Women Artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro interviewed by Claire Spark, 1971 –BC0260
Siqueiros: Political Artist produced by Paul McIsaac, 1974, BC1734
Art in the Mexican Community / produced by Colin Edwards, 1963 PRA# BB0098.04
New Nihilism or New Art moderated by Bruce Glazer, 1964 -BB3394
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Theatre of the Balustrade of Prague, 1970, BB5046
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Special Projects
Protests, Rallies, Demonstrations
Funded by the Ford Foundation, the Pacifica Radio Archives selected tapes of protests, rallies, demonstrations, and other public events have not been auditioned or analyzed since their accession by PRA. The project allows a vast, untapped source of primary material to be identified, saved, publicized and made available to a diverse population of potential users, including the news media, documentarians, and others. (Completion date: December 31, 2006)
The following are examples of tapes preserved. Items marked with the protest icon are now available for online listening.
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Anti-War March and Rally in San Francisco, January 26, 1991. |
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Women for Peace Rally, Berkeley, California, 1961. [Archives #BB0567] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Rally at U.C. Berkeley in support of Professor Angela Davis, October, 1969. |
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Demonstration at Mare Island. California shipyards against the construction of the Polaris Submarine. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, September 21, 1962 |
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Freedom Now! Documentary on Civil Rights march in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Produced by Dale Minor and Chris Koch. [Archives #BB0385A, BB0385B] Listen to audio, Part I; Listen to audio, Part II. Read transcript, Part I (PDF format). Read transcript, Part II (PDF format). |
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Human Rights march in San Francisco, California, 1964. |
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Adlai Stevenson, former presidential candidate, speaks in support of nominee John Fitzgerald Kennedy at the Democratic Party Rally, San Francisco, California, 1960. [Archives #BB1372.01] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Adlai Stevenson, former presidential candidate, speaks in support of nominee John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the Democratic Party at the Textile Workers Union Convention, Chicago, 1960. [Archives #BB1372.02] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Reies Tijerina speech at Peace and Freedom Party Rally, Richmond, California, 1968. |
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Free Huey rally, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968.
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Rally in support of David Harris and Joan Baez, 1969. |
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MLK Jr. memorial rally in Central Park, New York City, 1968. |
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Anti-war moratorium rally, Washington, D.C., 1969. [Archives #BB3743] Listen to audio.
Read transcript (PDF format).
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Pro Vietnam War Rally sponsored by the Silent Majority Mobilization
Committee, NYC, July, 1970. |
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Rally protesting maltreatment of migrant workers, Connecticut College.
1968. (Program title: Barbed Wire Man) [Archives # BB3885] Listen to audio.
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Labor / Student rally, Sacramento, CA, includes address by Governor Ronald Reagan, 1967. |
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A Night in Chicago: documentary on demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention, 1968. Produced by Elsa Knight Thompson. [Archives #BB2159] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Rally for the Harrisburg 13, accused of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Introduced by Father Henry Brown. New York City, March, 1971. [Archives #BB4264] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Rally at Danbury Federal Correctional Institution protesting the holding
of political prisoners in Vietnam and the United States, particularly
Fathers Philip and Daniel Berrigan. August 18 [19?], 1971. [Archives #BB4362] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights October 14, 1979. |
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No Nukes Rally, Washington D.C., 1979. Includes Barry Commoner, Jane Fonda, Sarah Nelson, Ralph Nader, Helen Caldicott, Dick Gregory, Jerry Brown, Ton Hayden, John Goffman, Grace Paley, Bella Abzug, Abbie Hoffman, William Winpisinger, and George Wald, 1968. |
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Democratic National Convention in Chicago. August 28, 1968. Includes Allen Ginsberg's address to demonstrators and the Chicago police. [Archives #BB4550] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Pro-Nixon rally, presidential campaign, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1968. [Archives # BB3541] Listen to audio. Read transcript (PDF format). |
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Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond
Part of the UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project. To access recordings go to http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet/
- Confrontations on Berkeley Campus BC0301
- Sproul Hall sit-in documentation BB2365A
- Sproul Hall sit-in documentation sixty-eight BB2365B
- Excerpt of live coverage of Vietam demonstration October 1965 B2440
- John Wells at a Noon rally in Berkeley BB1628
- Vietnam Moratorium rally at UCB October 1969 BB2435
- Is Draft Resistance the Answer? BB1766a
- Is Draft Resistance the Answer? BB1766 B
- Marc Coleman’s nonviolent attack on the Oakland draft center BC0494
- Dr. Benjamin Spock in Berkeley BB1631
- Dr. Benjamin Spock BB2218.21
- I.F. Stone on Vietnam BB2218.04
- Eugene Burdick and Morris Hirsh BB5417
- Norman Mailer at Berkeley BB1332
- Norman Thomas BB2218.10
- Paul Potter BB2218.11
- Senator Ernest Gruening BB2218.06
- U.C. Faculty Debate on Vietnam BB2218.12 A
- U.C. Faculty Debate on Vietnam BB2218.12 B
- Senator McCarthy at Berkeley BB1320
- Tran Van Dinh addressing students in Berkeley BB2451
Further Pacifica/UCB Resources
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Save Our Sound Tour
Iin April 2005, three PRA staffers and 150 master recordings traveled from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, with these objectives: tape preservation, community outreach, increased access and environmental education. More >>
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The Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation & Access Project is funded (in part) by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, grants from the GRAMMY Foundation®, The Ford Foundation, The Pacifica Foundation, supporters of the Pacifica Radio Archives, members of the Adopt-a-Tape program, and listeners to Pacifica Radio Stations, KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI, WPFW.
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