Word: teach-in
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...Counter Teach-in" and its aftermath showed dramatically the state of Harvard's movement. Radicals had felt deeply the galling fact that they had done nothing of note all year to stop the carnage in Indochina; most felt that the movement was dead, and that its enemies-a White House aide and puppet officials of the South Vietnams and Thai governments-were coming to town to dance on its grave before the eyes of the world and the cameras of USIA...
Tension decreased on Friday, March 26, the day of the Teach-in, when it was learned that SJP's announced list was not completely accurate: the South Vietnamese Ambassador told reporters that he had never planned to attend the Teach-in, and that a minor embassy official would represent the South Vietnamese government. And the Thai Embassy in Washington said that it has never heard of Anand Sandering Ham-the scheduled speaker, it turned out, would be Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to Canada, whose Embassy was quartered in the Sanderingham Building...
Tension crackled around the auditorium like electricity when the speakers walked in SDS began a rhythmic chant, U. S. OUT OF VIETNAM, BUTCHERS OUT OF HARVARD. J. Lawrence McCarty, an official of the American Conservative Party serving as moderator for the Teach-in, attempted to introduce the first speaker. After it had become plain that he was not being heard, Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's troubleshooter, appeared from the rear of the stage, walked to the rostrum, and begged the crowd to quiet down. Near tears as he spoke, he asked the disrupters to "answer what is said here with...
...warned him that some members of the small crowd outside had broken a firedoor and were attempting to force their way into the Theatre. Cox then asked McCarty to end the meeting. The speakers made their way out of Sanders Theatre through the steam tunnels and the Teach-in was history...
...disruption of the Teach-in proved practically indefensible: most students who disrupted had followed an ad hoe strategy compounded of impotence and blind rage, and they did little organizing before or after the event. The ball landed in the Administration's court, and Harvard fielded it well. The Faculty Council issued a statement, and the Deans blitzed the Houses with mini-teachings on free speech and the liberal university...