Press law. – Pacifica Radio Archives

KPFK meets the press : legalities of the SLA communiques / Will Lewis ; recorded by Ruth Hirschman.

A press conference on the legal battle surrounding KPFK’s refusal to turn over SLA and Weather Underground tapes to the police on first amendment grounds.

August 24, 2025

KPFK ungagged : a press conference on the SLA tapes/ Ruth Hirschman, David Finkel, and Ramona Ripston.

On the background of the SLA tape, and the first amendment battle in the courts. “0” level tone at head. Feedback near start of Hodel’s intro. Questions at low level. Recorded in “D”. intro tagged on from M/C A/C (acetate)

August 24, 2025

Tricky Dicky gives C.B.S. a black eye / Dr. Frank Stanton.

Testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on Constitutional Rights examining newspeople’s privilege laws.

August 24, 2025

Right of access : the only choice for the media / Jerome A. Barron.

Talk discusses the problems in distinguishing fact from opinion, and the resulting legal implications.

August 24, 2025

The Carlin case / interviews by Joe Cuomo and Mickey Waldman.

Paul Gorman, James T. Farrell, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, E.L. Doctorow, Erwin Krasnow, Jeff Cowan, Howard Moody, Nicholas Johnson, and Richard Wiley on the broadcasting of a George Carlin presentation containing objectionable language.|THE CARLIN CASE / interviews by Joe Cuomo and Mickey Waldman. – Paul Gorman, James T. Farrell, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, E.L. Doctorow,…

August 24, 2025

Senate subcommittee on constitutional rights : freedom of the press / chaired by Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond.

Julian Goodman and Fred Friendlytestify before the committee about freedom of the press.

August 24, 2025

Senate sub-committee hearings on constitutional rights : freedom of the press / chaired by Senator Sam Ervin.

Rep. Ogden Reid, Dr. Frank Stantonand Richard J. Barnet testify concerning freedom of the press and the question of reporters’ immunity from subpoenas.

August 24, 2025

Senate sub-committee on constitutional rights : freedom of the press / chaired by Senator Sam Ervin.

Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Hugh Scott, Senator RomanHruska, Walter Cronkite and Jerome A. Barron testify on government interference with freedom of the press.

August 24, 2025

Responses to Barron / Clifton Daniel and John de J. Pemberton.

Two responses to Barron’s talk about the legal implications of defining fact from opinion.

August 24, 2025