Program

Fannie Lou Hamer interview

Colin Edwards interviews Fannie Lou Hamer, candidate for Congress and member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, during Hamer's visit to Berkeley in 1965. Hamer discusses how she got involved in Freedom Democratic Party politics, the planks of the Freedom Democratic Party, and the continuing fight for voting rights and human rights.

Elizabeth G. Flynn interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the late chairman of the American Communist Party and a member of the party since 1927 talks with KPFA Program Director Elsa Knight Thompson about the aims and methods of the party's political activities.

Natural childbirth : the Lamaze method / Dr. Mardi Horowitz, Dr. John Seldon Miller, and R.N. Ruth Noel.

Panel on the innovative technique for natural childbirth.

Abortion and the medical profession / moderated by Harry Giaretto.

Harry Giaretto moderates this panel from the Conference on Abortion and Human Rights held January 9, 1966, in San Francisco under the auspices of the Society for Humane Abortion. Dr. Mildred Ash, Dr. Leona Bayer, Dr. Neal Blumenfeld, and Dr. William Marsh discuss the legal and moral controversy surrounding abortion.

Bettina Aptheker interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Bettina Aptheker discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson her reasons for being a Communist Party member, her experiences as a young woman, traveling in Europe, and various related subjects.

A Buddhist visitor / Thich Nhat-Hanh and Robert Browne ; interviewed by Marshall Windmiller.

Marshall Windmiller interviews the Venerable Nhat Hanh, South Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author and poet, and Robert Browne, Professor of Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University and former U.S.A.I.D. official.

Box notes read first broadcast is 1966-06-07, during 8:00 p.m. Open Hour on KPFA. Dubbed for WBAI broadcast of 1966-08-20.

The Civil rights movement and its goals of the future / Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the student body at Stanford University with his speech "The Civil Rights Movement and its Direction, Leadership, and Goals for the Future."

The Exacting ear / Eleanor McKinney ; interviewed by Byron Bryant.

Eleanor McKinney, editor of "The exacting ear: the story of listener-sponsored radio, and an anthology of programs from KPFA, KPFK and WBAI" (Pantheon Books, 1966), discusses her book with Byron Bryant of KPFA.

An interview with Dr. Han Suyin /conducted by Marshall Windmiller

Marshall Windmiller interviews Dr. Han Suyin, noted writer and lecturer and author of "A Many-Splendored Thing." She discusses her life and work, her publications on the Chinese revolution, the Vietnam war, Communism, and the new Western colonialism and imperialism which causes her to recall China in the 1920s.

An anthology of Negro poets

Selected readings by the authors from the works of Black poets; Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Also includes readings of poems by Claude McKay. Produced by Arna Bontemps.

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