University Protest and Activism Collection, 1958-2018, bulk 1968-1972

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Series XV: Reel to Reel Tapes

A series of 35 reel to reel tapes. There is a numbering issue with the tapes. Many of the tapes have two numbers--a large, printed label and a hanwritten number. The tapes are arranged by the large typed number on the tape. Please note that there is no Reel 17. The list below notes whatever infromation was found on the tape boxes/reels as the "title". There is a series of index cards with tape information, but it is unclear how it related to the physical tapes. We expect to have a better sense of what is actually on these tapes after they are digitized as part of CUL's AMI project in 2020-2021. These tapes are part of Accession 2012.2013.M111. In 2018 we added (4) additional reel to reel tapes to this series of interviews conducted by Michael Steinlauf (CC 1967) for Liberation News Service. Out of these four, two contained material not relevant to the collection (2 of 4 had various tones, no other content and 3 of 4 had only a short (2.5 min) advertisement for a tape recorder. Those two items were removed from the collection.



Box 74 Folder 1 Note cards indexing the reel-to-reel tapes, (37 note cards)


Box 74 Reel 1 Interview with unidentified man about the faculty response to Columbia University protests, 1968


Box 74 Reel 2 Tape 1: Track 1 - Mostly French-language recording, various group discussions, maybe about American politics; Track 2 - unrelated (music), 1968


Box 74 Reel 3 Tape No. 1 - Track 1 Interview with Bill Floyd; Track 2 Interview with Professor Alland, interviewers are Barbara Larson and Roger Sanjek, 1968 June 5 (Track 1) and 19 (Track 2)


Box 74 Reel 4 Columbia Strike Chronology Tape 2, Side 1


Box 74 Reel 5 Tape 4: Track 1 Wingate TV Program; Track 2 Grayson Kirk on Meet the Press, 1968 May 26 and June 2

(Wingate TV Show, 1 hour on Student Rebellion at Columbia. Juan Gonzalez (strike leader), Hyman Bass (Professor Math), Paul Vilardi (Majority Coalition leader), Eugene Galanter, Professor of Psychology). There's also a third track with a group of people singing "I Can't Feel at Home in This World Anymore," followed by someone playing guitar.


Box 74 Reel 6 Tape 5: Likely no 68 relevance; Congolese Folk Song, 1968

(Digitized in 2016. NOT David Susskind Show as indicated on index cards)


Box 74 Reel 7 Tape 7, untitled, 1968


Box 74 Reel 8 Tape 8: Cox Commission, 1968


Box 74 Reel 9 Tape 10: Track 1 - Student/Faculty meeting; Track 2 - Interview with Professor Class, interviewed by Barbara Larson, 1968 June 14


Box 74 Reel 10 Tape 17: Fayerweather Panel (both sides), 1968 July 21


Box 74 Reel 11 Tape 18: Fayerweather Panel, 1968 July 21


Box 74 Reel 12 Tape 19: Roger, Mandy, Diana - Fayerweather, 1968


Box 74 Reel 13 Tape 20: Fayerweather (Roger, Diana, Mandy), 1968


Box 74 Reel 14 Tape 22: Fayerweather (Barbara, Roger) 1 of 2 - Interview with Frank Hale (Cale?), interviewers are Roger Sanjek and Barbara Larson, 1968 June 25


Box 74 Reel 15 Tape 24: Interview with Andy Levine, interviewers are Roger Sanjek and Barbara Larson, 1968 June 25


Box 74 Reel 16 Tape 29: Interview with Frank Hale (Cale?), interviewers are Barbara Larson and Nina Glick, 1968 June 28



Box 75 Reel 18 Harris: History of Anthropological Theory, April 1964


Box 75 Reel 19 A B B F, A R B - room interview laid on top of "Harris" lecture, 1968


Box 75 Reel 20 Harris: History of Anthropological Theory, February 1964


Box 75 Reel 21 Harris: History of Anthropological Theory, May 4, 1964


Box 75 Reel 22 Tape 30: Track 1 starts with an interview with an unnamed faculty member, followed by a separate interview with Professor Shenton, which continues on Track 2, 1968


Box 75 Reel 23 Track 1 - interview with Emile Saint-Lot and Pierre [?], interviewed by Nina Glick, dated 8/15/69; Track 2 - interview conducted mostly in French, dated 8/18/69, 1969 August


Box 75 Reel 24 Tape #31: Radical Faculty - Interview with Reverend Starr, interviewed by Nina Glick, 1968 July 2


Box 75 Reel 25 Program about schools, 1968


Box 75 Reel 26 Interview with Professor Etzioni, interviewed by Barbara Larson and Nina Glick, 1968 June 21


Box 75 Reel 27 Interview with Leo Hurwitz, interviewed by Nina Glick, 1968 October 4


Box 75 Reel 28 Track 1 - Interview with Andy Levine, interviewed by Barbara Larson, dated July 9, 1968. Track 2 - Unidentified man describes events from Columbia protests, 1968 July


Box 75 Reel 29 Interviews and conversations about Columbia protests, 1968


Box 75 Reel 30 Interview with Antoine [?], mostly in French, 1968


Box 75 Reel 31 Meetings/conversations related to Columbia protests, 1968


Box 75 Reel 32 Tape 14: Interview related to faculty meeting during Columbia protests, 1968


Box 75 Reel 33 Meeting during protests, 1968


Box 75 Reel 34 Tape 23: Interview with Frank Hale (Cale?), 1968 June 25


Box 75 Reel 35 Tape 21: Interview with Morris Grossner, interviewed by Nina Glick, 1968 June 25


Box 75 Reel 36 Recording of a class (?), 1968


Box 75 Liberation News Service Interviews (Reel 1): Discussion with Allen Young, David Epstein, Brenda Porster (sp?), Michael Steinman (sp?), 1968 May 26

Tape donated by Michael Steinlauf (CC 1967) in 2018. He conducted these interviews with individuals involved in the Columbia 1968 events for Liberation News Service.


Box 75 Liberation News Service Interviews (Reel 2): Track 1: Discussions by people in communes on the lawn, May 10; Track 2: Discussions about sit-ins with Leslie Gottesman, Hilton Obenzinger, Brenda Porster, Michael Steinman, May 13, 1968

Tape donated by Michael Steinlauf (CC 1967) in 2018. He conducted these interviews with individuals involved in the Columbia 1968 events for Liberation News Service.