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Advocates; Should half of the federal dollars reserved for highways be diverted to mass transit systems?
Part of The Advocates.
01/25/1973
Moderator: Margaret Heckler Advocate: Michael Dukakis Advocate: Eric Julber Witnesses: Stewart Udall Secretary of the Interior 1960-69 Gov. Francis Sargent Massachusetts George Hilton Professor of Transportation, UCLA Rep. James Wright (D) Texas
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- Series
- Advocates
- Program
- Should half of the federal dollars reserved for highways be diverted to mass transit systems?
- Program Number
316
- 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: Margaret Heckler Advocate: Michael Dukakis Advocate: Eric Julber Witnesses: Stewart Udall – Secretary of the Interior 1960-69 Gov. Francis Sargent – Massachusetts George Hilton – Professor of Transportation, UCLA Rep. James Wright – (D) Texas Produced by WGBH at Faneuil Hall, bears WGBH copyright
- Duration
00:59:45
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Heckler, Margaret
- Hilton, George
- Julber, Eric
- Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933-
- Udall, Stewart L.
- Sargent, Francis
- Locations
- Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres
- Debate
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Social Issues
- Contributors
- Dukakis, Michael (Guest)
- Udall, Stewart (Guest)
- Julber, Eric (Guest)
- Wright, James (Guest)
- Heckler, Margaret (Moderator)
- Sargent, Francis (Guest)
- Hilton, George (Guest)
- Publication Information
- Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
- Citation
- Chicago: “Advocates; Should half of the federal dollars reserved for highways be diverted to mass transit systems?,” 01/25/1973, GBH Archives, accessed December 18, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_768EBB403636401393A0CB1E9DB808B5.
- MLA: “Advocates; Should half of the federal dollars reserved for highways be diverted to mass transit systems?.” 01/25/1973. GBH Archives. Web. December 18, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_768EBB403636401393A0CB1E9DB808B5>.
- APA: Advocates; Should half of the federal dollars reserved for highways be diverted to mass transit systems?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_768EBB403636401393A0CB1E9DB808B5