Tag Archives: University of California

The New Yorker: Douglas Watt: ‘The Glittering, Corrosive Humor of Lenny Bruce’

“Early in 1966, the entertainer Lenny Bruce, who died in the midsummer of that year at the age of forty from a self-administered overdose of morphine, gave his next-to-last public performance, at the Berkeley Community Theatre, a large auditorium near … Continue reading

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Sargon of Akkad: ‘Communists at Berkeley Lose the Argument’

Source:Sargon of Akkad– free speech rally or protest, at Berkeley, California. Source:The New Democrat “Yvette Felarca and a gaggle of communist cultists from BAMN vs me.” From Sargon of Akkad The main woman in this video said that according to her, … Continue reading

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Paul Richards: The Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience in Berkeley (1964)

Source:The Daily Review I hate as a Liberal hearing California being called a liberal state and some bastion of liberalism. And just go back to the 1960s and how they came down on students who were simply looking to express … Continue reading

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