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Moe's woes : the business of swapping and selling secondhand books

Owner Moe Moskowitz of Moe's Books, a second-hand bookstore in Berkeley, discusses running a small business near a radical university. He is one of Berkeley's best known merchants and keen observer of campus radical life from his viewpoint (and storefront) on Telegraph Avenue, just a few doors south of Fred Cody's bookstore, and the center of the Free Speech Movement.

Lady Randolph Churchill / by Anita Leslie interviewed by Eleanor Sully

Anita Leslie, the author of "Lady Randolph Churchill: the story of Jennie Jerome," talks with Eleanor Sully about her recently published book. Jennie Jerome was Winston Churchill's American-born mother and Miss Leslie is her great neice. The book was published by Scribner in 1969.

Conversation with Ishmael Reed

Eleanor Sully talks with Ishmael Reed, author of "The Free-Lance Pallbearers" and "Yellow Back Radio Broke Down," about his own work in relation to the tradition of black writing in America. Possibly first aired during Sully's "New Writers" series on KPFA.

Otis Brown Jr. of Indianola, Mississippi

This is an autobiographical statement from a young Southern Black organizer on his experiences in the Civil Rights movement. Otis Brown, Jr. was one of eleven children born in Indianola, Mississippi. Brown was born August 3, 1945, and he got involved in the civil rights movement in 1965, attending and then teaching at the Freedom School.

Is population control genocide?

A panel discussion held at the Environmental Teach-in on the University of California campus in Berkeley. Panelists are Dr. Sidney Liebes, a research physicist in the genetics department of Stanford University Medical Center and director of Planned Parenthood in San Mateo; Dr. Ron Hoy, neurophysiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the U.C.

Righteous but compassionate

An interview with Steve Stacey and Ron Landberg of the Good Earth Commune in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. They discuss the Haight-Ashbury as it is today, as well as the evolving ""hip"" lifestyle and its philosophy. The interviewer is Al Silbowitz.

Our children / George Roth interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

George Roth, physician and member of the Committee of Responsibility, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. Roth had just returned from South Vietnam where he selected another group of war-injured children who will be given medical aid in the United States, as he discussed in a previous interview with Elsa Knight Thompson.

Arab woman, guerilla leader / Leila Khaled ; interviewed by Colin Edwards.

Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to Damascus where she blew up the entire front end.

The Greek press and people / Helen Vlachos interviewed by Don Porsche

Mrs. Helen Vlachos, publisher of a conservative Greek newspaper, who ceased publication in 1967 rather than submit to the censorship imposed by the Greek junta, talks with KPFA public affairs director Don Porsche about censorship of the Greek press and the fight to end it. Recorded at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco on May 18, 1970.

Free abortion in Los Angeles / Sheila Smith interviewed by Don Porsche

Sheila Smith, a volunteer worker at a short-lived free abortion clinic in Los Angeles, talks with KPFA Public Affairs director Don Porsche. Dr. John Gwynne opened the Community Service Center and Women's Abortion Clinic, an abortion clinic in Los Angeles, on March 16, 1970 in defiance of the abortion laws, and in hopes of testing the law's constitutionality.
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