| 0:00 |
Benjamin quotation: "Only for the sake
of those without hope is hope given to us." |
| 0:40 |
Bringing down effigy of "Marxist Marcuse"
after hanging in front of San Diego city hall |
| 1:10 |
Title: Story of the Revolution
in Paradise |
| 1:20 |
airplanes flying over San Diego |
| 1:40 |
Photo of Herbert in Danish philosophy
book: philosophy as a media event:
"Could San Diego tell me something about Marcuse?" |
| 2:20 |
Rodin's Thinker on UCSD campus |
| 2:30 |
Part
I: Philosophy in May [1968]
(back to top) |
| 2:40 |
Angela Davis, age 24 in 1968, academic
and activist between civil rights and Vietnam |
| 3:40 |
documentary footage of Paris, 1968
/ Andy Feenberg commentary: Herbert named responsible. Articles:
"Idol of rebelling students." French national strike of 10 million:
aparked by a book? |
| 4:40 |
One-Dimensional Man: not working
class, but marginal groups are rev. subject |
| 5:00 |
interview KCET May 24, 1968
"Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of the New Left" at UCSD, with sunglasses.
Why discomfort? -destruction on construction, etc. "Casting all
that aside" |
| 6:40 |
1967 quotation: "The need for better
TV sets, better automobiles � The simple refusal to take part in
affluent society. |
| 6:50 |
cut to navy gunboat Flagstaff in 1968,
military stuff: marching soldiers |
| 7:40 |
Herbert at a NY discussion with H.
Rap Brown, known for incendiary quotation "Violence is as American
as apple pie".
San Diego newspapers go nuts: "Marcuse calls for sabotage of US
society" |
| 8:00 |
McGill, chancellor UCSD 1968-70 inauguration
at UCSD, paid ad demands firing Marcuse |
| 8:20 |
McGill interview 1990s: Not H's books,
but he served as role model;
cartoon of radicals undermining university |
| 9:40 |
tape of American legionaire Harry Foster,
Aug. 11, 1968: "Rome, Paris - Marcuse was there" |
| 10:25 |
McGill 1990s and KOGO Aug.
12, 1968: buy out Marcuse's contract for $20,000, American
Legion letter sent to regents and press as well. Lots of articles
about getting rid of Herbert |
| 11:50 |
Alex: Why did Herbert come to San Diego? |
| 12:00 |
French Magazine picture: Marcuse &
Lettau, interview with German farm footage. Lettau hated San Diego,
but Marcuse liked it. Lettau had to leave Germany [in 60s?], offer
from UCSD, asked Herbert. SD: complete antithesis to gray and blunt
Europe. |
| 13:40 |
shots of beach, neighbors Carlos &
Iris Blanco. [Frederic Jameson] |
| 14:10 |
1967 quote: "education today must �
mind and body, reason and imagination, the intellectual and instinctual
needs" |
| 14:50 |
Part
II: Pleasure in Paradise (back to top) |
| 15:00 |
Angela Davis Dec. 18, 1991
CSPAN footage at Harvard JFK school, and today, about occupation
of chancellor's office for Lumumba/Zapata college. Would Herbert
come along? Of course! And he was first one physically in the building. |
| 16:00 |
May 16, 1969 news
footage. [March 14, 1969 student demand; founded 1970; 1993 renamed
for Thurgood Marshall]. Reflect academic & community needs of
African, Latino communities |
| 16:40 |
McGill interview then: can't just break
the door down |
| 16:55 |
McGill today: don't meet sit-in with
force; they even paid for the door, anonymous money order. |
| 17:30 |
Blancos (Carlos: Prof.
of Lit; Iris: grad. student 1970-72) Herbert paid for the door.
Herbert said: you must teach me. |
| 18:50 |
study Plato but also Fanon; Herbert's
humility--very rare.
He would read their suggestions and talk about in lecture the next
day |
| 19:25 |
Angela today, with photo then. March
23, 1969 NYT Book review "Philosopher of the New Left" |
| 19:40 |
Peter Zelin, "tenured
student" 1971-1988, re: hippos: "bizarre animal" embodied absurdity |
| 20:20 |
Paige Dubois, prof.
lit. UCSD, on Eros & Civ. |
| 21:00 |
Zelin re: Paris: "demand the impossible."
|
| 21:35 |
Zelin re: hippos; hippos wallowing,
crucial to the environment, link land and river, Dept. of Defense
research more offensive than hippos |
| 22:00 |
Juutilainen: Barry Shapiro
(grad. student 1966-69) looking in office window. Gave speeches
from benches in plaza below. Herbert's office always open; Huntley-Brinkley
TV news showing GIs lighting Vietnamese huts on fire |
| 23:40 |
Reinhard Lettau: said
put body on the line. On recruiting: he hit an officer, was suspended
for 5 days, no salary for month |
| 24:40 |
Feb. 25, 1969 interview
with Lettau: Military violates university. Who is violence against?
Interviewer: Isn't it disruptive of university? |
| 25:00 |
Marine recruiter called to talk, vote
by acclamation to allow, chants of "fascist" |
| 26:00 |
What is the purpose of being in Vietnam?
chanting "peace now" |
| 26:20 |
quote 1966: "Defense of life involves
not only the protest against neo-colonial war and slaughter, the
fight for civil rights, but also the refusal to speak the dead language
of afflence, to wear clean clothes, to go through the educational
of affluence" |
| 26:40 |
Marcuse re: violence, then interviewer:
disruptive activity harms university? HM: if stops war, more than
justified |
| 27:00 |
fountain; Zelin re: George Winnie,
23, self-immolation. |
| 28:00 |
Oct. 3, 1969 rally |
| 28:30 |
Admiral Gehres May 30, 1969 speech
recording: Marcuse calls for dictatorship; shot of Angela Davis
& Herbert at protest |
| 29:10 |
Part
III: Power and Play (back to top) |
| 29:25 |
McGill (today) re: Reagan then: nice
guy vs. mean spirit, hard-bitten |
| 30:00 |
McGill: Reagan had no understanding
of ideological concerns, idealism;
May 21, 1969 Reagan press conference at Berkeley:
Just tell students this is private property. Prof: we must listen
to the students. Reagan walks out. |
| 30:15 |
Zelin: Herbert on Reagan, against rationalization
of education (article title), instead: imagination, creativity
|
| 30:55 |
Reagan re: "dogs of war". |
| 31:00 |
McGill: Reagan said he knew all about
Communists from Hollywood days: they understand only force, he won't
negotiate. |
| 31:40 |
McGill: We can't ride roughshod over
students |
| 32:30 |
Barry Shapiro: Herbert internationally
respected professor, not a communist.
News clipping with Shapiro's
commentary |
| 32:50 |
Spiro Agnew (VP 1969-73)
on Robert Dornan show: Marcuse poisoned lots of young minds with
drivel. We should train young people to be productive citizens,
not to examine motives of human beings
|
| 33:30 |
Herbert Schiller,
prof. communication, UCSD. Herbert had only pen, no real threat |
| 33:50 |
Death threats. LA Times, July
26, 1969: Marcuse will still teach in fall. |
| 34:50 |
Shapiro: we carried arms (Malcolm X,
Apr. 68 MLK assassinated, June 68 RFK).
July: HM death threat, fled
from San Diego home to central California |
| 35:50 |
Andrew Feenberg, SDSU
Philosophy Dept, re: Herbert's work for CIA in 1940s. / lots of
article texts, LA Times West, July 27, 1969 with
caricature |
| 36:20 |
Alex: what were origins of Herbert's
popularity |
| 36:30 |
walking up stairs of Frankfurt Institute
for Social Research |
| 37:20 |
origins in 1930s. Herbert's passport
from Frankfurt archive,
US immigration stamp Apr. 30, 1934. |
| 38:20 |
reading death threat postcards
"to anarchist, aetheist murderer getting paid by people of Calif.,"
Hitler was right after all, Herbert should go to Russia, � |
| 39:40 |
KKK letter: "dirty communist pig" "72
hours to live, then we will kill you" |
| 40:20 |
read last line of One-Dimensional
Man: Benjamin quotation "It is only for the sake of those without
hope that we hope is given to us" |
| 40:40 |
Part
IV: Tolerance and Torments (back to top) |
| 40:50 |
Lettau: police followed him home |
| 41:10 |
Davis, arrest of her sister Fania,
husband Sam was shot (footage of arrest);
Herbert raised Fania's bail |
| 42:20 |
GREAT sunglasses interview again: violence
does good, theory of violence as virtue. Herbert: have to consider
motives and objectives |
| 42:40 |
Herbert contradicts interviewer: violence
of defense NOT violence of aggression |
| 43:00 |
May 9, 1969 anti-war
demonstration. Shapiro: violence of state much greater |
| 43:50 |
sunglasses interview on violence: who
loses it is sick |
| 44:20 |
UCSD name reading; on TV: US Army's
body count: US 177, ARVN 284, Enemy 1487 |
| 45:15 |
interview: Paris was counterviolence |
| 46:20 |
Interviewer: "Aha, now I have it."
Herbert: NO I don�t advocate violence!! |
| 46: |
Alex: could Herbert forget the lesson
of Hitler gaining power in the 1930s? |
| 46:55 |
Lettau on Reagan |
| 47:20 |
footage of silent demonstration against
Reagan |
| 47:40 |
McGill; Reagan: they don't understand,
regents don't want to destroy university |
| 48:40 |
Blancos |
| 49: |
students mock regents, mock execution |
| 50:00 |
Part
V: Pin-Ups and Public Icons (back to top) |
| 50:10 |
student solidarity "strike" for student
killed at Berkeley May 1969. McGill: close it down |
| 51:00 |
McGill today: he had 2 dozen arrested
for blocking his office. He wouldn't let governor, nor students
interfere with faculty governance |
| 51:50 |
Dean Murphy had protesters against
CIA recruiting photographed and arrested |
| 53:00 |
McGill would put "SOB" faculty [Lettau]
in jail for 21 days (or $2000 fine). Lettau interview |
| 53:40 |
Herbert speaking Oct. 24, 1969
at Berkeley: fight against oppression in university is
beginning; university as institution of oppression |
| 54:30 |
news report: Angela Davis fired from
UCLA. Angela,
Carlos Blanco: Angela's politics didn't matter to Herbert |
| 55:50 |
freedom for Angela |
| 56:10 |
Angela, 26, professor, on FBI's 10
most wanted list because of Soledad shootout.
June 5, 1972 footage of trial. |
| 56:50 |
Feenberg on playboy interview: Herbert
said only if he could be the centerfold.
Footage of Sept.
1970 Playboy issue. |
| 57:00 |
Lettau on philosophers--some of his
best friends are. They take nothing for granted. |
| 58:00 |
all united against Herbert: American
Legion, Pope, Pravda, Agnew, Reagan--all feared this youth corrupter |
| 58:20 |
Last
Part (VI): Pacts and Preservations (back to top) |
| 58:30 |
Feb. 16, 1969: McGill must decide fate
of Herbert: He'll reappoint for 1969-70 |
| 59:00 |
McGill: question was: How to retire
him with dignity. |
| 60:00 |
Feb. 16, 1969 KSDT
tape recording: Herbert phoned in answer to McGill: teacher must
tell truth |
| 60:50 |
Feb. 16, 1969: Legionaire Harry Foster:
oust McGill and Marcuse; also Assemblymember Stull |
| 61:00 |
Colonel Fred Stevens, April
9, 1969 "Citizens against Campus Anarchy" against Marxist
Marcuse |
| 61:30 |
Zelin at office: Herbert, as emeritus,
taught seminars under auspices of other professors |
| 62:10 |
McGill today: not just for Herbert;
there must be mandatory retirement age to get fresh blood into system |
| 63:00 |
McGill: Herbert died 3-4 years later;
Juutilainen: actually 10 more years |
| 63: |
McGill became president of Columbia,
Reagan was reelected governor of California |
| 64:00 |
Kent State; immolation of George Winne;
Herbert calls for "long march through the institutions" |
| 64:40 |
TV interview: he never consdiered himself
"father" of new left--did they understand him? |
| 65:30 |
Herbert just missed Reagan's election
to presidency |
| 66:00 |
Alex: disgust of affluence replaced
by fear of impoverishment. What should we remember about 1968-69? |
| 66:20 |
1978 quotation on remembrance: "All
reification is a forgetting: In contrast, remembrance spurs the
drive for the conquest of suffering and the permanence of joy." |
| 66:40 |
looking through postcards of San Diego.
Long shot of Herbert(?) from behind, walking across lawn toward
campus building |
| 67:50 |
Alex with shot of Herbert, recording
of hippos |
