50 YRS AGO TODAY: the Free Speech Movement started. On October 1, 1964, former graduate student Jack Weinberg was sitting at the CORE table. He refused to show his identification to the campus police and was arrested. There was a spontaneous movement of students to surround the police car in which he was to be transported. Weinberg did not leave the police car, nor did the car move for 32 hours. At one point, there may have been 3,000 students around the car. The car was used as a speakers podium and a continuous public discussion was held which continued until the charges against Weinberg were dropped. tinyurl/ofds2og
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:08:22 +0000
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