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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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