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The speaker is John Steinbruner. I conducted this interview with him in 1989. His specialty was public policy and he taught public policy at MIT, Harvard, the John Kennedy school, and led the school of public policy and international security at University of Maryland. He was also a leader at the Brookings Institute and the center for international and security studies. I selected him to be interviewed because of his position which was neither left nor right during the 1960s. He died in 2015.

The speaker is Carl Oglesby, a noted libertarian and 1960s Vietnam war political activist. I interviewed him in 1989. He is not a baby boomer and was born during the “silent generation”. Of all of the hundreds of people who I interviewed at that time, I found him the most articulate. He was one of the original founders of the students for a Democratic Society (SDS). During his days, he was a writer and a journalist and a professor at MIT among other universities. He wrote several books, most notably one called “Who Killed JFK.” search his name on my YouTube channel to find other comments by him.

Back 30+ years ago my team recorded this therapy session at a church in St. Louis Missouri. Young people were sharing their stories of what it was like to grow up with a dad who had come back from the Vietnam War. I felt for these kids and for the veterans who returned with PTSD and other mental and physical challenges. The names of these young people are lost in my files (destroyed in a fire). I would love to reach out to them today to hear what happened to them and to their fathers as time went on.

The students rebelling in this 1969 documentary film were part of A college based organization of radical students called the Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. They disrupted many university campuses. This documentary captures a bit of what they were saying and a bit of how other students were reacting. In almost every case, their disruptions did cause the universities to make some changes but most students did not support how they shut down free speech and in some cases, university classes. As a young documentary filmmaker, these folks were prime targets because they were always dramatic and engaged in activities that were provocative. After Kent State, this college movement very quickly quieted down and things returned somewhat to normal, although what segment of the student population that had left college never returned.