Eleventh Hour

  • Women for peace at Geneva / produced by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Elsa Knight Thompson interviews three Bay Area women who have just returned from the disarmament conference in Geneva. They were part of a group of 50 American women who went to the disarmament conference under the auspices of Women For Peace to urge the 17 nations assembled to take positive steps toward world peace. 1.…

  • The nerve of failure

    Dr. Thomas Billings, assistant professor of education at Sacramento State College, delivers the fifth annual faculty convocation lecture at the college on May 22, 1963, at the invitation of his colleagues. Just prior to this date, both Dr. Billings and Dr. Edward Beechert, assistant professor of social science, had been refused tenure and a third…

  • That jackass across the street / Derrel Myers interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    “That jackass across the street” is what a neighbor called Derrel Myers when he launched his 30-day vigil on the steps of the Atomic Energy Commission in Berkeley, to dramatize his support of the Everyman 1 crew serving 30-day sentence for its sailing. Everyman I and II were American boats that sailed from San Francisco…

  • The Radical right : a threat to democracy / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    The Reverend John Simmons (1917-2013), Reverend Brooks Walker, and community leader and actress Marsha Hunt (b. 1917) discuss the dangers presented by the rise of reactionary political groups in the United States at a meeting held at the Temple Sinai in Westwood, Los Angeles, CA on February 8, 1962. While the program was being recorded,…