American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Is population control genocide?

    A panel discussion held at the Environmental Teach-in on the University of California campus in Berkeley. Panelists are Dr. Sidney Liebes, a research physicist in the genetics department of Stanford University Medical Center and director of Planned Parenthood in San Mateo; Dr. Ron Hoy, neurophysiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Zoology;…

  • Free abortion in Los Angeles / Sheila Smith interviewed by Don Porsche

    Sheila Smith, a volunteer worker at a short-lived free abortion clinic in Los Angeles, talks with KPFA Public Affairs director Don Porsche. Dr. John Gwynne opened the Community Service Center and Women’s Abortion Clinic, an abortion clinic in Los Angeles, on March 16, 1970 in defiance of the abortion laws, and in hopes of testing…

  • The Greek press and people / Helen Vlachos interviewed by Don Porsche

    Mrs. Helen Vlachos, publisher of a conservative Greek newspaper, who ceased publication in 1967 rather than submit to the censorship imposed by the Greek junta, talks with KPFA public affairs director Don Porsche about censorship of the Greek press and the fight to end it. Recorded at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco on May…

  • Arab woman, guerilla leader / Leila Khaled ; interviewed by Colin Edwards.

    Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to…

  • Abolish the Peace Corps / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    A panel discussion with three former Peace Corps volunteers Joseph Sklar (Peace Corps in Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala), Bonnie Strote (Peace Corps in Peru), and Frances Ryan (Peace Corps in Honduras) of the Committee of Returned Volunteers. Elsa Knight Thompson moderates this discussion of the problems within the Peace Corps system.

  • Delano now / Dolores C. Huerta ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    Dolores C. Huerta (1930 – ), Vice President of the United Farm Workers and Director of Contract Negotiations, discusses the negotiations centering on the 1965 Delano grape strike with KPFA’s Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the UFW’s negotiations with the produce industry, as well as the state of the grape boycott.

  • East Germany and Europe / Helga Lohr-Bailey interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Helga Lohr-Bailey, who lived for ten years in East Germany, tells Elsa Knight Thompson about life there and the complex network of relationships between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the rest of Europe as well as the “Big Powers.” RECORDED: 4 Feb. 1970. BROADCAST: KPFA, 6 April 1970. Originally broadcast on KPFA’s open…

  • The two-factor theory / Louis O. Kelso and Patricia Hetter interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Louis O. Kelso and Patricia Hetter, originators of the economic theory “Two-factor theory,” and authors of the book of the same title, make a valiant attempt to explain the theory to Elsa Knight Thompson. Louis Kelso states that it is a concept of the nature of the production and distribution process in economics. For the…

  • Family planning : prejudice and politics / Dr. Bruce Jessup and Douglas Stewart.

    The second session of the conference held at the U.C. Medical Center, San Francisco, September 14-15, 1968. Dr. Bruce Jessup of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare talks about programs in the United States. Douglas Stewart, director of community relations, Planned Parenthood World Population, speaks on the question of genocide. The session ends with…