Film: "Berkeley in the Sixties"

"Berkeley in the Sixties” is a 1990 documentary film by Mark Kitchell. The film highlights the origins of the Free Speech Movement beginning with the May 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at San Francisco City Hall, the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969. The film features student activists and archival footage of Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Grateful Dead. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature." (Wikipedia) Presented in conjunction with campus visit of Free Speech Movement activist Frank Bardacke.