What 1960s Campus Protesters Think of Today
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lerer on WNYC for the last 15 minutes of the show, as we often do in this slot, a call in. |
| 0:11.4 | And this time we come back to the issue of the protests on college campuses and the school's responses to them. |
| 0:17.4 | And this time we'll invite calls from people who were involved 50 or 60 years ago |
| 0:22.2 | in the last wave of campus protests this big and widespread and divisive from the Vietnam |
| 0:27.7 | war era and the civil rights era. |
| 0:29.8 | So who listening right now protested in the late 60s or early 70s? |
| 0:35.1 | What memories about your protest or feelings about today's, the current |
| 0:40.2 | situation, what feelings and memories is the current situation prompting in you? |
| 0:45.1 | 212-433 WNYC, if you're a person in that category. |
| 0:50.4 | 212-433-9692. |
| 0:53.9 | Who listening right now protested in the late 60s or early 70s? What memories |
| 0:59.0 | about your protest or feelings about today's is the current situation prompting in you. Maybe you even |
| 1:05.3 | want to give advice to today's protesters based on your experience a long time ago. We had a high school senior caller |
| 1:12.9 | last hour and high school senior who's reconsidering the college that he got admitted to |
| 1:18.7 | with his politics in mind. That caller, high schooler cited the Kent State shootings, |
| 1:26.0 | knew that much history for four students shot dead by |
| 1:29.5 | National Guard members in the spring of 1970 at Kent State in Ohio. Many schools shut down |
| 1:36.3 | for the rest of the semester after that. So who listening right now protested in the late |
| 1:42.4 | 60s or early 70s? And with Columbia in the spotlight, was anyone listening right now, protested in the late 60s or early 70s. |
| 1:44.4 | And with Columbia in the spotlight, was anyone listening right now at the famous Columbia |
| 1:48.8 | University protest of that era in 1968? |
| 1:52.9 | Does anyone with that experience relate to this? |
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