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
As we said, the tenyear getting awfully close to 2 . Inversion blowback. The killer here, shire down 25 and a lot of big event funds getting crushed. Earnings from bank of america, blackrock are out, both beating on the bottom line. Can financials lead the market higher . First up, new data adding to concerns about the economy. Stock futures extending their losses this morning after september retail sales fell more than expected, down 0. 3 . Thats excludeing autos. Sales declined 0. 2 . Also seeing a bigger drop in oil prices after that tuesday selloff. Thats crudes biggest oneday slide in almost two years. Oil is down 23 , jim, since june. Its cost opec hundreds of millions of dollars. Larry fink that morning saying he thinks gas prices are going to come down 30, 40 cents into years end. Gas prices are based on brent. Brent has come down a lot. I think thats a nice prediction. You need oil to go to 70 if that happens. Is oil possibly going to 70 . I had harold ham on last night, who a
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
For that matter they couldnt even hand out a leaflet for goldwater for president. Who was the candidate that year and had been nominated in San Francisco. So the students tried to negotiate with the university. The university refused, and then in defiance, some of the students set up a card table right in front of the plaza and handed out leaflets. In short order, a Police Cruiser pulled into the middle of the plaza and arrested somebody named Jack Weinberg who was behind the table. But before they could go anywhere, students begin to sit down around the police car and soon the entire plaza was filled with students sitting round a police car. They held captive for the next 33 hours. And that was the beginning of the Free Speech Movement. [applause] and the fsm went on to stage a number of protests, tried to negotiate with the university. Ultimately, put on what was the biggest city in in the nations history, roughly 800 people were arrested for sitting in overnight at the hall. And in
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