Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Original, unedited scenes of the San Francisco riots instead of the HUAC films will be incorporated," Broger stated. The FBI has been helping the department compile the film...
...movie is described as an effort to give an overall picture of communist penetration into youth organizations, yet it will treat such varied and complex events as the Venezuelan riots against former Vice-President Richard Nixon, this summer's student riots in Japan, and the demonstrations against the HUAC in San Francisco. None of these outbreaks are proven instances of communist activity. Venezuela and Japan, for example, are by no means simply cases of Red agitation. And the San Francisco demonstrations, whatever their real cause, were not explained in the very bad and very distorted film made by the HUAC...
Burton White, a teacher at the University of California and one of the leaders of the student demonstration, spoke after the screening. He attacked the film, claiming that it had been doctored to suit propaganda purposes of the HUAC. The film was shown again last night under the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee at the Friends Meeting House...
...leader of the San Francisco student riot shown in the movie distributed by the House un-American Activities Committee will address the meeting. Burton White, instructor in English at the University of California, will deliver a "general critique of the movie and the HUAC," an officer of the club said...