American Women — Peace and Antinuclear activism

  • Nuclear madness / by Helen Caldicott

    Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of “Nuclear madness: what you should do”, speaks on the nuclear war possibilities of the past (Cuban missile crisis) and present. She also explains the possibilities of excess radiation, the problems of uranium waste, how radiation causes cancer and the genetic implications of such elements as plutonium, nuclear power proliferation and…

  • The challenge of the selective service system / Evelyn Whitehorn; introduced by Ruth Gage-Colby

    Mrs. Evelyn Whitehorn speaks before the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom February 7, 1969. Mrs. Whitehorn is involved in litigation resulting from her refusal to allow her son Eric to register with the Selective Service system. Ruth Gate Colby emcees. Recording ends abruptly.

  • Lysistrata’s daughters / produced by Trevor Thomas and John Harris

    Documentary on the Women’s Strike for Peace organization, founded by Dagmar Wilson and Bella Abzug. This program includes actualities from the United Nations Plaza protest for peace. One participant says their motivation is “Emotional, not political. We want to save our children.” Actualities, interviews, speeches over megaphone. Includes interview with Dagmar Wilson, co-founder of Women…

  • 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.

  • U.S. prisoners in North Vietnam / Madeline Duckles interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    An interview with Madeline Duckles, of Women for Peace, who was one of three American women who went to Hanoi for two weeks in December 1969 at the invitation of the North Vietnamese Women’s Union. She talks with KPFA’s program director Elsa Knight Thompson. There is no intro; the first voice heard is Madeline Duckles.…

  • A parent’s choice / Mrs. Evalyn Dundas interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Mrs. Evalyn Dundas, whose son Malcolm is serving a prison term for non-cooperation with the draft, discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson the problems that such a situation poses for parents. Malcolm was granted the status of conscientious objector, and joined the Peace Corps through which he was a teacher in Tanzania. He was then recalled…

  • A Lady called Peace Pilgrim / interviewed by Lou Hartman.

    Lou Hartman interviews the activist who called herself “Peace Pilgrim” (neé Mildred Norman), who has walked 25,000 miles since 1953 in her quest for world peace. Peace Pilgrim talks about her journey, which she’s undertaken with no possessions, money or organizational backing, why she’s chosen to adopt a pseudonym instead of using her real name,…

  • Shelter for the shelterless / Reverend Glenn Smiley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Reverend Glenn Smiley, Associate Secretary in charge of field work for the Fellowship of Reconciliation about their recent efforts to help provide housing to those in need. They talk about a new program for housing millions worldwide who have no dwellings, building fallout shelters and the threat of nuclear war to…

  • Twenty days in Santa Rita / Emily Lewis and Lillian Rubin interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Emily Lewis, public health nurse and wife of Berkeley doctor Reuben Lewis, and Lillian Rubin, research assistant in sociology at the University of California, and the wife of a Berkeley restaurant owner, talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about their jail experiences. Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Rubin had just been released from Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center,…

  • Duck and cover / panel moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Four peninsula children–Kathy Fitzgerald, Susan Whitaker, Fred Barnhart, and Robert Rogers–talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about civil defense drills. They discuss the “duck and cover” instructions they are given at drills at schools, where they get their information regarding atomic bombs, and their thoughts and feelings on radiation, war, and death.