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Title: 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform, Image 03
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr
Description: Pamela Beardsley
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; student; alumni; 1969; activism; protests; Martin Luther King; police; police violence; anti-war; Cambodia; Vietnam; Kent State; graduation
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1744
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Title: 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform, Image 04
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr
Description: Mark Speiser
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; student; alumni; 1969; activism; protests; Adam Clayton Powell; Muhammad Ali; Martin Luther King; Robert Kennedy; March on Pentagon; anti-war; race
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1745
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Title: 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform, Image 10
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Maren Orchard
Description: Dan Kerr talks with Thomas Hartman, a graduate of the Class of 1963.
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; student; alumni; 1969; activism; protests; Adam Clayton Powell; Muhammad Ali; Martin Luther King; Robert Kennedy; March on Pentagon; anti-war; race relations
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1751
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Title: Hari Zandler Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr; Hari Zandler
Description: Hari Zandler, American University Class of 1969, talks about his journey to peace as a student at American University. He remembers being part of the Peace Movement and struggling to find inner peace at AU and in France. He discusses how taking yoga classes on campus helped him find peace. Hari reflects on the demonstration against the War in Cambodia on Ward Circle and commends the bravery of the students and how they emobided the spirit of the time. He remembers being chased by the police back to campus and finding solace in the Spiritual Life center. He ends by saying he lives his life by the same ideals he had as a student: "peace is a reality in my life."
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; President Richard Nixon; Activism on American University campus; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Cambodia; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Anti-war protests; Peace movements; Inner peace; Yoga; AU Professor Abdul Said; School of International Service (SIS)
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1947
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Title: Jane McCarthy Interview, October 9, 2020
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Jane McCarthy; Connor Mitchell
Description: Dr. Jane McCarthy served in Vietnam as a nurse in the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Da Nang. Prior to her deployment to Vietnam, Dr. McCarthy worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit’s recovery staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. Prior to enlisting in the Army as a nurse, Dr. McCarthy grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The interview spans the story of Dr. McCarthy’s life immediately before the war in Vietnam, during her time in Vietnam, and immediately after her return home from the war. Interview conducted virtually via TheirStory
Subject: Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Vietnam; Vietnam War; Saigon; Da Nang; hospital; 95th Evacuation Hospital; army; surgery; helicopter; nursing; nurse; military medicine; protest; anti-war; enlistment; corpsman; doctor
Country: United States
Collection: Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2552
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Title: Pamela Beardsley Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr; Pamela Beardsley
Description: Former American University student Pamela Beardsley discusses her time on campus. Though she did not graduate in 1969, she was a student starting in 1965 and spent time on campus through the 1970s. She remembers being a part of a small group dedicated to political action and education. She talks about protesting a continuing education program for law enforcement at AU due to increased racialized police violence in the city. Pamela reflects on how Martin Luther King's assasination changed the feeling of DC. She further discusses protests on campus in 1969 and 1970 relating to the US invasion of Cambodia and the shooting at Kent State. She ends by reflecting on the 1970 AU graduation, with a large police presence and anti-war messages everywhere. She later went on to work for the National Anti-War Organization.
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; Continuing Education at AU; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Cambodia; Activism on American University campus; Anti-war protests; Police harrassment; Police violence; Racist police officers; Kent State shootings (May 4, 1970); National Guard; SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference); SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee); Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination of
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1949
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