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In the next two minutes you'll see a
series of mixed up scenes because we can't

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show you what really happened.

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We'll have to tell you we're getting
now to the heart of this matter.

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The police housing which the committee
calls that quote communist led riots.

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First you must know

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that there were two police authorities in
operation at city hall on this particular

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Black Friday. There was no
apparently is armed between them.

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On one side Rashard Carberry on the other
inspector McGuire of the city police.

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The sheriff seemed to be working in one
direction. The inspector in another.

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Naturally there was
confusion. Friday morning.

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The sheriff approached the students
saying in effect. Wait in the rotunda.

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And I'll try to arrange for you to be
admitted to the hearing room through no fault

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of his sheriff Carberry could not make the
necessary arrangements in time for the

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afternoon session in the meantime the
responsible student leadership made several

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attempts to cooperate with the police they
were rebuffed they sense the danger in

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the situation and made frantic
efforts to contact the mayor

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or some other responsible city official no
one was available at noon on Friday the

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students start their efforts
were to be successful

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that at last they were to be let in
on a first come first served basis.

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And again they were treated to the spectacle
of the pass holders being admitted

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ahead of them. They felt cheated.

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They felt they'd been betrayed sheriff
Carberry had led them to expect the

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afternoon sessions with the
admissions on a more equitable basis.

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Ironically enough.

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The sheriff had done as he promised
he'd gotten the permission he was after

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and he was on his way back to
City Hall with that information.

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When the whole thing began under inspector
McGuire's direction a squad of policemen

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moved up the city hall stairs.

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The students quieted down they
expected the police to make them stay.

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That some request for them
to leave the building

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but nothing was said the committee's
version keeps emphasizing

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that the students were warned.

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It's true the police asked a few
individual students to leave.

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But there was never a general
warning to the students.

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No hint was given of what was to come out
of the side of the students the police

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began calling the fire hoses the students
tried to demonstrate their nonviolent

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intentions by sitting down.

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Some witnesses heard a policeman
shout something to this effect.

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So you want some of this to you
where you're going to get it

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and then the water was turned on.
That's what really happened.

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But here's the committee's
version of what happened.

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That the new.

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I'm afraid has become more and more one

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that has stayed grabbed the police didn't

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just forward from the door at least in fact
there are others that are on the trial.

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Well you surely know

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that Robert Mizen back was acquitted
in the San Francisco trials.

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If you saw a Life magazine of May twenty
third one thousand nine hundred sixty.

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You saw a photograph of Meissen back
standing perfectly dry over against the wall

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of the rotunda looking on while
the students were being hosed.

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Not even the committee will suggest
the communist tricks so adroit

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that a man can touch off a riot.

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Beat a police officer be
granted with fire hoses

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and get away all dried off
within a matter of seconds.

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It can't be done and wasn't done.

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Even the officer who supposedly was
assaulted admitted after trial there was no

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barricade jumping by my son
back. And another curious fact.

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Despite all the experienced press

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and television cameramen on the spot
all the footage that was taken.

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No one has come forward with their
single frame showing anyone jumping any

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barricade

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nor as the committee would have it quote
any mob surging forward to storm the doors

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and quote do you see
anything of that kind.

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Here you can bet that if it had occurred.

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Someone would have pictures of it
and you can bet at even longer odds

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that if such pictures existed.

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The committee would have
publicized them far

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and wide look at the scenes the police
rousting students from city hall

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which group is using or allowed violence.

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The students but the police

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and just suppose for the sake of argument
that a student had leaped a barricade

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and assaulted an officer that would
certainly be grounds for his arrest but

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that if it occurred have justified the
police in handling all the students in this

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way.

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The fact is no one leaped the barricade
no one assaulted an officer then why did

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the police use the hoses
only the police know that

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and they aren't saying there has
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Not only in San Francisco but nationally
that the evidence points to brutality

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and violence on the part of the police
rather than on the part of the students we

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ask you to grow your own conclusions.

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Remember

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that most of the scenes use are just prior
to the hosing were actually taken that.

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Day before on Thursday.

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But the makers of operation abolition
weren't satisfied with the truth.

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It wasn't dramatic enough. It didn't prove
their point about a communist led riot.

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So by combining the two demonstrations
the film editors were able to create a

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distorted and crude but persuasive effect.

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As we said before Representative Walker
has tried to defend himself by saying the

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errors in the film are purely accidental
you know now they were not accidental

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when the committee subpoenaed the film
from the photographers all sequences

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but properly dated and labeled
there was no excuse for error.

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No excuse for mixing up the
true sequence of events.

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It's a matter of record that at
least seven students were injured.

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But Operation abolition didn't include
was the original newsreel film showing

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injured students lying prostrate

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and apparently unconscious on the floor
of City Hall or outside on the ground.

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Such scenes work carefully deleted by the
committee's producers in contrast see now

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what tender concern they
have product police.

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In the words of the original
narrator and or students

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that are minor injuries only men entered
to the point where they require

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hospitalization

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that might bring your freedom

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or hearing the common prank
on the age of sixty one

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who suffered a stroke
when he was not agitated.

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This makes a good story from
the committee point of view

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but the truth as shown by
the official police report.

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Or is that after Dunphy merely
collapsed from exhaustion

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and other police injuries were minor Why
shouldn't they be minor no one was turning

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hoses on the police or
dragging them downstairs.

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And our late policemen were back at
full time duty within three days

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the committee are so far all fleet tied in
the students with communism by declaring

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that just before the hosing quote students

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and to use the actively joining in on
the refrains to the song about wish the

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committee.

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We Shall Not Be Moved lyrics to which are
lifted from the old communist people

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songbook

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and quote actually we shall not be moved
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known to people acquainted with folk
music which appears in him novels

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and is presently the theme of
certain demonstrators in the south.

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These are the arrested students being
but later charges against all but one.

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Robert Mizen back were dismissed

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and mizen back was acquitted by a jury after
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Now with all the talk in the committee's
film about communist leaders

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and communist dupes.

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Only two of those arrested are
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and these two joined the group. Only
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So even this flimsy pretext by the committee
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falls flat.

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Now the film shows you some are so-called
evidence of communists agitating

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California students into opposing the House
committee and on American activities.

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This includes clippings
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and the San Francisco
Chronicle The implication is

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that these news stories on events
surrounding the hearings are a result of

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communist inspiration. Showing
a page from a newspaper R.B.S.

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Leaders and through this claim God
are continuing scenes of pickets

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and crowds taken at various
times during the hearings.

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Again you will see actions of some of the
witnesses under subpoena in the hearing

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room. You're informed in
operation appellation

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that in some way these witnesses were
directly responsible for the demonstrations a

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mile away at Union Square after the
demonstrators outside city hall

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and after those trying to get into the
hearing the committee narrator tells you

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it's a communist tactic
providences to defy it.

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If so why does the committee subpoena
the same witnesses again and again.

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Is it because they really think the
witnesses will suddenly break down

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and make some dramatic disclosure.

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Or is it because they can't count on a
stubborn defiant witness making a good

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newspaper story.

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The committee doesn't like statements
from one kindly witnesses its rules say

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that any statement can be rejected
as an attack. I am a committee.

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So any witness who dares disagree has
no way of being heard either verbally

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or in writing without the
committee's indulgence.

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Here we see Archie Brown attempting
to read just such a statement.

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I live there twenty seven
three episodes ago.

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I am a long time and I wanted to state.

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Mr Chairman

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that I have done many many one.

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I want to be with my family

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and I want to buy this

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but my guess is it is not were directed

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and to do

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that with dummies like this the man

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that I am going to find
is now down to some.

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Mr Chairman I want to stay

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on the way.

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I'm sorry I was subpoenaed.

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And

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that my mind to get

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it done.

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Did anybody out anything
like what is happening

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here

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and then as Archie Brown
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his efforts to read a statement chairman
Willis threatens him with expulsion from

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the hearing room.

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You may fly paper out of
the record. If you wish.

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I wish I wish I was

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playing.

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I want to see

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Brown is possibly removed
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The committee needn't have been surprised

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that this next witness William Mandela's
turned out to be hostile their narrator

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described him as quote and identified
agent of the Communist Party

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and quotes but today expressed.
Well they expected an outburst.

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Because this is great publicity.

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In fairness to Mr Mandela
it should be said

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that the testimony you hear
was presented out of context.

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Right.

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In the United States Constitution.

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If you would you.

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Sandels answered that he was
a lecturer. But left out.

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And now we hear only part of his answer to
the next question whether he was a party

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member and lectured that question.

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One thousand nine hundred forty
three by the way killed a car

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and they say right when people
come up to me on the street.

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Perhaps they don't deserve the car.

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As a hero the man who
killed your macaca big

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or the spirit of the day in a burning here

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and I did my best to conduct myself on
the matter with nothing myself today.

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If there were any evidence against me under
any law the starry eyed look against

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him properly constituted my right.

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Going to answer that but.

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Next you will see Frank Wilkinson being
interviewed by a news man he is described

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by Congressman Gordon a cheer. As a pop
communist speeches and accused of.

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Agitating among the student demonstrators.

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Of course this accusation
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and just as phony as the crowd noises

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that were dumped into the
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No I've just been an observer of the I
understood you had said you were organizing

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protests against the committee.

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One of the things that our committee does

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and I do for our committee
is to come to each community

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when the committee issued a subpoena.

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To assist the subpoenaed persons

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and others in the community who are not
familiar with the kind of unconstitutional

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behavior that this committee
carries on to a community

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and to assist both the penie in their own
self-defense in the committee hearing

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today you are called an International
Communist agent are you a communist at the

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very flattering remarks Frank what they
called a a hard core communist local

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common just by Mr Sharon.

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But never an International Communist The
far as the basic question is concerned

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until the Supreme Court has answered the
fundamental constitutional question which

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is now pending in my case which is one of
the thirty sixth Amendment test cases of

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this committee and. Resolve the matter
at the player these kind of question.

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Don't under compulsion to be
illegal unconstitutional.

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I refused to answer the questions away
from the committee every truth was of

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correct to the Committee to
be committed. What I call.

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Now you've seen the film
known as Operation abolition

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but I company by narration of facts
rather than unfounded statements

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and deliberate distortions.

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I'm sure you now see that what
happened in San Francisco.

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Was not a communist led riot

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or even a group of young Americans
being killed by communists.

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Once you recognize this truth.
Two questions then arrives.

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Why were the students there

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and why did the House Committee on
Un-American Activities make this film.

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First the student demonstrations increasingly
students have become passionately

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involved in civil liberties issues. These
are good for us right. American issues.

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Going back a long way to the Declaration
of Independence to the Bill of Rights

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and coming right up to today with our
serious national concerns for the civil

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rights of all Americans.

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There is a difference between communist
dupes and high minded young men and women.

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Proud of their country's
traditions of freedoms.

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So openly proud of that tradition
that they have the courage

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and conviction to protest the violations
of those freedoms by the water committee

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the students protested
by peaceful picketing.

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They started mission to what had
been announced as a public hearing

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and were denied on flimsy frustrating
and conflicting grounds.

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Yes their reaction to this denial singing

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and chanting inside a public building
may rightfully be criticised.

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But as their record shows they maintain
their self-imposed passive resistance

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and acted on the whole with a restraint

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and courage not always matched by their
elders. Now the second question.

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Why did the House Committee on
Un-American Activities twist

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and distort this whole episode. Why
did they play scenes out of sequence.

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Why did they leave out certain
scenes. Why did they make.

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Narration statements that were totally
unsupported either by the pictures

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or the facts.

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Why did they give special prominence to the
misbehavior inside the hearing room of

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a few communists and alleged
communists who had been subpoenaed.

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We believe that the original film
and that ration were carefully

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and deliberately designed
to create the impression

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that all who oppose the committee are
either communists or communists dupes.

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In this manner.

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The committee seeks to discourage further
protests against it particularly among

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students and to inhibit freedom of speech

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and assembly get some
Americans have been duped.

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But in this case the duping has been done
by the House Committee on Un-American

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Activities Markwell

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that they won't our committee did all this
by indulging in a highly dubious bit of

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business using its subpoena power to seize
private property belonging to television

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stations and turning it over to a
committed commercial film producer.

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Who made the distribution

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and took the profits are disclosure
of the distortion of this incident

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and the untruthfulness of operation abolition
gives the American people a concrete

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example of the irresponsible manner in
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Committee operates the A.C.L.U.

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Supports the statement
of the New York Times

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when it says this whole un-American
operation by the Un-American Activities

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Committee is evidence not of
the need for its continuance.

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But need of its abolition of
course we have urged before.

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And that's why we have just shown
you Operation corrections.