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Advocates; Should Congress create a federal oil and gas corporation to compete with private industry?
Part of The Advocates.
01/24/1974
Moderator: Evan Semerjian Advocate: Fred Harris Advocate: Charls Walker Witnesses: Adlai Stevenson (D) Illinois Lee White Former Chairman, Federal Power Commission C. Jackson Grayson Dean, Business School, Southern Methodist University John Swearingen Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil of Indiana
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- Series
- Advocates
- Program
- Should Congress create a federal oil and gas corporation to compete with private industry?
- Program Number
413
- 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
- Program Description
Moderator: Evan Semerjian Advocate: Fred Harris Advocate: Charls Walker Witnesses: Adlai Stevenson – (D) Illinois Lee White – Former Chairman, Federal Power Commission C. Jackson Grayson – Dean, Business School, Southern Methodist University John Swearingen – Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil of Indiana Produced by WGBH at Faneuil Hall. Bears WGBH copyright.
- Duration
00:59:54
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Walker, Charls E. (Charls Edward), 1923-
- White, Lee C., 1923-
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1930-
- Swearingen, John E. (John Eldred), 1918-2007
- Harris, Fred R., 1930-
- Grayson, C. Jackson (Charles Jackson), 1923-
- Locations
- Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres
- Debate
- Topics
- Social Issues
- Public Affairs
- Contributors
- Grayson, C. Jackson (Guest)
- Stevenson, Adlai (Guest)
- Harris, Fred (Guest)
- Walker, Charls (Guest)
- Semerjian, Evan (Moderator)
- Swearingen, John (Guest)
- White, Lee (Guest)
- Publication Information
- Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
- Citation
- Chicago: “Advocates; Should Congress create a federal oil and gas corporation to compete with private industry?,” 01/24/1974, GBH Archives, accessed November 14, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0EE554D61F614A6E95C49782B4C9A900.
- MLA: “Advocates; Should Congress create a federal oil and gas corporation to compete with private industry?.” 01/24/1974. GBH Archives. Web. November 14, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0EE554D61F614A6E95C49782B4C9A900>.
- APA: Advocates; Should Congress create a federal oil and gas corporation to compete with private industry?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0EE554D61F614A6E95C49782B4C9A900