School, i want to invite all of you to what i think is an extraordinary special event. Tonight, we have the honor of rosenfeld here. He went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco examiner and chronicle. I stayed in touch with him all those years. I have known him for at least 30 years. For all that time, seth was involved in his own personal of whatr the question was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s. Book,sult is this subversives, the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. It is an extraordinary book. I was waiting for years to rita. Its an extraordinary book. , it. Read it. This book is based on 250,000 documents. Some of which you will see tonight. If youve never seen a fbi document, you might be shocked. You might want to close your eyes when you see it. Handwriting i J Edgar Hoover himself. Looking out into the audience, lets do a poll. How many people remember J Edgar Hoover . Good. We dont have to do a lot of
Because i think we have that common ground. I think when you say to someone the past doesnt matter you know, it doesnt matter. Of course it does. In your case, it matters that your father went to a substandard school you know, and it matters that his father before him barely went to scho school. Whereas my father has a college education, my grandfather had an engineering degree. His father before him had an engineering degree. Where we are today has a lot to do with where we start. Host i agree. Guest and thats something that i think most white americans today are not willing to acknowledge. So that is one of the purposes of the book and thats the conversation i want us to have is look at the history, look at the sum total of experience. Before you start judging about what policy is good and what policy is bad, lets take a look at the totality of the run up to where we got to this point. Host so, are you hopeful about Race Relations . Guest i am, i am. In the epilogue of my book i talk
Wearing che guevara tshirts when i was in college my grandma sent me an antiche guevara tshirt that i proudly wore to my latin american studies course. [applause] you can imagine how well that went over. Specifically i were particularly when they would start on the same day. I knew that was in the lesson plan so it was great. I want to start off by thanking Americas Foundation for having me here today. When they say i was inspired to do what im doing what im doing now as a result of the conference in 2008 its absolutely true. Young Americas Foundation does change lives of students especially when they are constantly in a hostile environment on their College Campuses and what young Americas Foundation foundation provides a source tools and mentorship is extremely important. I can tell you the work they do really has an impact. Living in washington d. C. Now and seeing all the graduates of young Americas Foundations programs working and policy positions or media really making a differenc
Having Seth Rosenfeld here whos an alum of the Journalism School as well as the daily cal and went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco chronicle. And all that time and i stayed in touch with seth all those years, ive known him for at least 30 year, going on 40 years and for all that time almost seth was involved in his own personal quest for the question of what was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s when all those events were taking place. And the result is this book, subversives the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. Its an extraordinary book, and when i read it finally and, by the way, i was waiting for years to read it and hearing about it its an extraordinary book because its written primarily from the perspective of the fbi, a voice that we rarely hear in public and one that when we hear it, were not sure what to think until we see their documents. And this book is based, as i understand it, on 250,000 do
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