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...including the American Civil Liberties Union, saw the investigation as something more serious than a carnival. What angered them most of all was that HUAC had obtained membership lists of student anti-war groups by serving the administrations of Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Michigan with subpoenas. The ACLU, to prevent a recurrence of these hearings, wrote letters to the Presidents of 900 American colleges, urging them to withhold the membership lists of political organizations from HUAC. President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University announced that HUAC would have to take the university into court in order to obtain these...
Kinoy was dragged by guards from the courtroom during an HUAC meeting last summer for "loud and boisterous interruptions." He and a number of other ACLU lawyers had obtained a temporary injunction against the hearing, but it was dissolved by a higher court...
Before the hearing, Kinoy explanied, the ACLU lawyers had been informed that it represented "only the beginning of a major attack on those forces which seriously questioned U.S. foreign and domestic policy...
...American Civil Liberties Union last week urged colleges and universities to resist further efforts by the House Committee on Un-American Activities to obtain membership lists of student anti-war groups. The ACLU rightly condemned HUAC's subpoenaing of membership lists from the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley last August as "one of the most serious breaches of academic freedom of students in recent decades, not excluding the McCarthy...
Monro did not know now what the College would do if the government asked for the SDS officer list. "When a College office comes under subpoena," he said. "We generally feel legally obliged to respond. But I don't know all the legal implications of the point which the ACLU physically attack members of the demonstration...