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Advocates; If You Oppose the War, Should You Answer the Call for Massive Civil Disobedience?

Part of The Advocates.

04/20/1971

Moderator: Michael Dukakis Advocate: Roger Fisher Advocate: William Kunstler Witnesses: Rennie Davis - Coordinator, MAYDAY Howard Zinn - Boston University Allard K. Lowenstein Sen. Philip Hart - D-Michigan Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill – D-Mass.


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Series
Advocates
Program
If You Oppose the War, Should You Answer the Call for Massive Civil Disobedience?
Program Number

64

Series Description

A SERIES OF DEBATES with a moderator facilitating the discussion of national and international issues - using advocates who would introduce witnesses to support their point of view. Debates recorded at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Moderators included: Michael Dukakis; Marilyn Berger; Michael Harrington, Robert Maynard. (Premiered October, 1969; conceived by Prof. Roger Fisher.) Other participants included Barney Frank, Avi Nelson, Antonin Scalia, S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Simon, Albert Shankar, Richard Bolling, Pete McCloskey, Chester Crocker, John Anderson, Elmo Zumwalt, George Ball, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Colby, Eleanor Smeal, Phyllis Schlafly, Sam Ervin, Laurence Tribe, Daniel Schorr, Orrin Hatch, Morris Udall, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Jake Garn, Paul Tsongas, Alan Dershowitz. Series release date: 1969

Duration

00:58:05

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
O'Neill, Tip
Davis, Rennie
Draft resisters
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933-
United States
Hart, Philip A. (Philip Aloysius), 1912-1976
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Lowenstein, Allard K.
Civil disobedience
Fisher, Roger, 1922-2012
Locations
Boston, MA
Genres
Debate
Topics
Social Issues
Public Affairs
Contributors
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- (Moderator)
Lowenstein, Allard K. (Guest)
Davis, Rennie (Guest)
Fisher, Roger, 1922-2012 (Guest)
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 (Guest)
O'Neill, Tip (Guest)
Hart, Philip A. (Philip Aloysius), 1912-1976 (Guest)
Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995 (Guest)
Publication Information
Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
Citation
Chicago: “Advocates; If You Oppose the War, Should You Answer the Call for Massive Civil Disobedience?,” 04/20/1971, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_58D7FC37405E4268BB7E68C925628EF9.
MLA: “Advocates; If You Oppose the War, Should You Answer the Call for Massive Civil Disobedience?.” 04/20/1971. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_58D7FC37405E4268BB7E68C925628EF9>.
APA: Advocates; If You Oppose the War, Should You Answer the Call for Massive Civil Disobedience?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_58D7FC37405E4268BB7E68C925628EF9
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