URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6019
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  Student Power
Item Title Student Power
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Theobald, Robert
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created January 15, 1968
Description Campus disruptions, some of them violent, had been going on for a full three years and were about to escalate. Students were demanding not only an end to the Vietnam War but also significant roles in deciding what should be in the college curriculum and who should teach it. Host and guest sometimes talk at cross-purposes, but mostly this is a productive exploration of what might usefully be changed and what are the limits of change. RT: "I approve of student power in certain definitions. I very deeply disapprove of some of the definitions of student power ... I think that some of the statements of student power have essentially said, 'We have the right not only to live our own lives, but to take over everybody else's life as well.' And this seems to me to be a very dangerous thing."
Subject(s) Student participation in administration Student movements United States
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded New York City, New York, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Text
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 085
Record Number 80040.85
Notes Video available through special order.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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