Yes, there were demonstrations against the committee, some newspaper editorials against the committees tactics. In fact, fairly widespread questioning of the committee by persons were present in many shades in the Broad Spectrum of political opinion. No doubt some communist, both foreign and domestic variety are against the committee, but we point out and we will prove with our own film that persons who demonstrate against the committee are not there thereby communists or communist dupes. If you are to be called a communist every time you stand up for basic american rights and freedoms, what is likely to happen question mark will you be silent, and if so, happen . Will you be silent, and if so, is this what the House Committee on unamerican activities is after a silent, submissive, on protesting american . If not, why the falsifications in their own film . In a moment, you will see that film, known as operation abolition, but you will hear a corrected description of the events. The evi
Watched operation abolition at screenings hosted by political and civic organizations. Is a sample oft communist propaganda published by organization known as the calmness front. It is at this instant being distributed throughout the United States by dead dedicated, hard core communist agents. Its pamphlet and others like play major role as artillery in one phase of the communist war phasetroy our nation a called by the communists, operation abolition. This is abolition. Gentlemen, francis walker. Mr. Walker operation abolition. This is what the communist call their current discredit its director, j edgar hoover. Has givenist party top priority to operation abolition and has assigned agents trained in propaganda and education to this project. The scenes which you will be by newsreel taken photographers during hearings of the committee on unamerican activities in San Francisco, 12, 13, andon may 14, 1960. During the next few minutes, you will see revealed, the longtime, classic communis
School, i want to invite all of you to what i think is an extraordinary special event. Tonight, we have the honor of rosenfeld here. He went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco examiner and chronicle. I stayed in touch with him all those years. I have known him for at least 30 years. For all that time, seth was involved in his own personal of whatr the question was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s. Book,sult is this subversives, the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. It is an extraordinary book. I was waiting for years to rita. Its an extraordinary book. , it. Read it. This book is based on 250,000 documents. Some of which you will see tonight. If youve never seen a fbi document, you might be shocked. You might want to close your eyes when you see it. Handwriting i J Edgar Hoover himself. Looking out into the audience, lets do a poll. How many people remember J Edgar Hoover . Good. We dont have to do a lot of
Having Seth Rosenfeld here whos an alum of the Journalism School as well as the daily cal and went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco chronicle. And all that time and i stayed in touch with seth all those years, ive known him for at least 30 year, going on 40 years and for all that time almost seth was involved in his own personal quest for the question of what was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s when all those events were taking place. And the result is this book, subversives the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. Its an extraordinary book, and when i read it finally and, by the way, i was waiting for years to read it and hearing about it its an extraordinary book because its written primarily from the perspective of the fbi, a voice that we rarely hear in public and one that when we hear it, were not sure what to think until we see their documents. And this book is based, as i understand it, on 250,000 do