Savio, Mario

  • Sentencing of the Berkeley free speech movement defendants

    Speeches and interviews given by Free Speech Movement defendants as they are sentenced, enter, or are released from the Santa Rita detention center for their activities three years prior. Narrator Elsa Knight Thompson explains how on June 12, 1967 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the Free Speech Movement case, she reads the…

  • The Berkeley riots : a KPFA documentary.

    Documentary from actuality of the Free Speech movement actions of October 1-2, which has been labeled the “Car Tap Rally.” Includes statements by Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, as well as the music of Joan Baez who came and gave a concert in support of the student demonstrators. 518 RECORDED: KPFA, 9 Oct. 1964.|THE BERKELEY RIOTS…

  • The Car top rally.

    Actuality of student protests against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley.|THE CAR TOP RALLY – Actuality of student protests against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. Early morning interviews by Al Silbowitz of Mario Savio and other demonstrators| fraternaty brothers say they will go home if the other demonstrators give up…

  • Sit-in inside Sproul Hall.

    Actuality from renewed protest of students against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley’s Sproul Hall on October 1, 1964. Precursor to the Car Top Rally. The recording features students discussing sit-in strategies, singing protest songs and chants. It includes discussion among Arleigh Williams(Dean of Men), Mario Savio, Turner, Nate Coleman, Michael Rossman, Jim…

  • Free Speech Movement–“Car Top Rally” (Part 1)

    Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. START OF THE CAR TOP RALLY . Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. Side 1 (tape 1). Sproul Hall at 9:00 a.m.: Burton White reads student petition. Student discussion about giving leader names to the…

  • Free Speech Movement–“Car Top Rally” (Part 2)

    Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. pt.1. Burton White reads ASUC petition about privileges; Pickard talks about sitting at tables; Mario Savio says not to give up student names; Burton White describing tables going up around Sproul Hall; students speaking; the arrest of Jack Weinkey — pt.2. Students…

  • Free speech movement : sounds and songs of the demonstrations / produced by Stan Axelrod.

    The documentary on the Free Speech Movement of the sixties begins with a sit-in of 6,000 students at the administration building, Sproul Hall. Various speakers voice their concerns and opinions regarding students’ rights and the faculty’s involvement. Recorded is the arrest of Jack Weinberg, a recent graduate and civil rights activist. Mario Savio speaks to…

  • Mario Savio / introduced by Professor John Searle.

    Talk on the Vietnam War.|MARIO SAVIO / introduced by Professor John Searle. – SERIES: University of California at Berkeley Vietnam Teach-in, May 21, 1965| no. 1 – Talk by anti-war activist Savio on the Vietnam war. – CONTENT: pt.1. Introduction by Professor John Searle (4 min.) — pt.2. Talk by Mario Savio (28 min.). RECORDED:…

  • The Free Speech Movement

    A chronology of the student free speech movement in the early 1960s produced by Robin Steinhardt and Philip Maldari for the KPFA 30th anniversary celebration in March 1979. This program uses cuts from the record “Is Freedom Academic?” created by KPFA in late 1964, which features recordings of the rally and sit-in at Sproul Hall,…