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Guide to Past Programs
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1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Date: February 6, 1970
Speaker: Commissioner Thrower, Internal Revenue Service
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: February 9, 1970
Speaker: Charles Mathias - U.S. Senator, Maryland
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: February 19, 1970
Title: "Florida's Fight Against Organized
Crime"
Speaker: Claude E. King, Jr. - Governor of Florida
Moderator: James Vorenberg - Professor, Harvard
Law School
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: May 1, 1970
Title: "Is the Pill Safe?"
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: September 6, 1970
Title: "After the Moon -- What?"
Speaker: Dr. Wernher Von Braun - Former Director, Marshall Space
Flight Center;
Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA
Moderator: Dr. Richard Batton - Professor, M.I.T.
[PART
1 - AUDIO - PART
2] [PHOTO]
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Date: November 18, 1970
Title: "Women's Liberation"
Speaker: Betty Friedan
Panel: Dr. Martina Horner
Diana Garrity
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: December 11, 1970
Title: "Heart Transplants and the Law"
Speakers: Dr. Michael DeBakey
Professor Guido Calabresi
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: February 19, 1971
Title: "A Mid-term Assessment of the
Nixon Administration"
Panelists: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach - Former U.S. Attorney
General
Senator Thomas Eagleton - Missouri
John Price - Special White House Assistant to President
Nixon
Moderator: Henry J. Steiner - Professor, Harvard
Law School
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: March 12, 1971
Title: "The Role of Sports in American
Life"
Panel: Michael Burke - President, New York Yankees
Howard Cosell - Sportscaster, ABC
Johnny Sample - Author, Confessions of a Dirty
Ballplayer
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School
Library Special Collections]
Date: March 24, 1971
Speaker: Walter J. Hickel - Former Governor of Alaska;
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Moderator: Michael Leavett - Fellow in Advanced
Environmental Studies, Harvard
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: September 27, 1971
Speaker: Senator Edward Kennedy - D., Massachusetts
Moderator: Roger Fisher - Professor, Harvard Law
School
[PHOTO] [Audio
Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library Special Collections]
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Date: October 1, 1971
Title: "Putting People First"
Speaker: Sen. Fred Harris - Democratic Candidate for President
Date: October 21, 1971
Title: "The Role of Defense Counsel in
Political Trials"
Speaker: Gerald Lefcourt - Attorney for the Chicago 7, Buffalo 9,
New York 21
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: October 28, 1971
Speaker: Sen. George McGovern - D. South Dakota; Candidate for
Democratic
Nomination for President of the United States
[PHOTO] [Audio
Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library Special Collections]
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Date: November 5, 1971
Title: "The American Role in South
Africa: The Polaroid Question"
Speaker: Joel Carson - Attorney, Exile from South Africe
Panel: Andrew Lukele - Student from South Africa
Christopher Ntete - Student from South Africa
Margaret Marshall - Student from South Africa
Richard Suzmam - Student from South Africa
Date: November 10, 1971
Speaker: Eugene McCarthy
Date: February 11, 1972
Title: "Death Before Life: A Case
Study of Public Broadcasting"
Speaker: Nicholas Johnson - Commissioner, FCC
Date: April 13, 1972
Speaker: Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - Official U.S. Interpreter for
Nixon China Visit
Date: April 21, 1972
Title: "Integration of the Suburbs"
Speaker: George Romney - Secretary, HUD
Date: October 3, 1972
Title: "The Middle East"
Speaker: H. E. Yitzhak Rabin - Israeli Ambassador
Moderator: Paul Freund - Professor, Harvard Law
School
Date: October 19, 1972
Title: "Prison Reform"
Speaker: James R. Hoffa - Former President, Teamsters
Date: November 14, 1972
Title: "The Northern Ireland Problem"
Speaker: H. E. William Warnock - Irish Ambassador
Date: November 29, 1972
Title: "The People's Right to Know:
The Erosion of First Amendment Rights"
Speaker: Hon. James Skelly Wright - Judge, Circuit Court of
Appeals, D.C. Circuit
[PHOTO]
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Date: March 8, 1973
Title: "The Supreme Court Abortion
Decision: Should It Stand?"
Panel: William J. Curran - Harvard Law School, Medical Sch.,
School of Public Health
Philip B. Heyman - Professor, Harvard Law School
John H. Ely - Professor, Harvard Law School
Henry P. Monaghan - Boston University School of Law
Date: April 13, 1973
Title: "ESP and Psychic Phenomena"
Speaker: Edgar D. Mitchell - 6th man to walk on the moon
Date: April 27, 1973
Title: "The American Inquisition"
Speaker: Cedric Belfrage - Author, The American Inquisition
Date: November 28, 1973
Speaker: Aaron Copeland
Date: February 27, 1974
Speaker: Caspar Weinberger - Secretary of H.E.W.
Date: March 9, 1974
Speaker: Elliot Richardson
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: March 20, 1975
Speaker: Fred Harris - Democratic Candidate for President
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library
Special Collections]
Date: March 22, 1975
Speaker: Francis W. Sargent - Former Governor, Massachusetts
Date: March 24, 1975
Speaker: Sen. Lowell Weicker
Date: April 8, 1975
Speaker: Seņora Salvador Allende - Widow of Former Chilean
President
Date: April 12, 1975
Title: "Live From Harvard Law School"
Speaker: Dick Cavett
Date: May 7, 1975
Title: "Who Killed Robert F. Kennedy?"
Speaker: Allard Lowenstein - Former New York Congressman
Date: September 19, 1975
Speaker: Senator Ernest F. Hollings - D., South Carolina
Date: September 26, 1975
Speaker: Jimmy Carter - Candidate for President of the United
States
Date: February 19, 1976
Speaker: Senator Charles Mathias - Maryland
Date: February 25, 1976
Speaker: Rep. Morris K. Udall - D., Arizona
Moderator: Paul Freund - Professor, Harvard Law
Schoo
Date: April 29, 1976
Speaker: Roderick Hills - Chairman, Securities and Exchange
Commission
Panel: Kenneth Andrews - Professor, Harvard
Business School
Andrew Kaufman - Professor, Harvard Law School
Louis Loss - Professor, Harvard Law School
Date: October 24, 1976
Speaker: Rep. Robert Drinan - D., Massachusetts
Date: September 14, 1976
Speaker: Hon. Tom C. Clark - Retired Associate Justice, U.S.
Supreme Court
Date: October 7, 1976
Title: "Justice in America"
Speaker: William M. Kunstler, Attorney
Date: October 13, 1976
Speaker: Ann Landers, Syndicated Columnist
Date: October 20, 1976
Title: "Growing Up at 37"
Speaker: Jerry Rubin
Date: November 3, 1976
Title: "The Election Results and the
Prospects Ahead"
Speaker: Joseph Kraft, Political Columnist
Date: November 11, 1976
Speaker: Grant Gilmore - Professor, Yale Law School; Author, Death
of Contract
Date: November 23, 1976
Title: "The Future of the World Economy"
Speaker: Wassily Leontief - Economist (Nobel Prize, 1973)
Date: December 2, 1976
Title: "The Press and Politicians 1976"
Speaker: Dan Rather - Television Journalist
Date: December 8, 1976
Title: "Can Morality Be Legislated?"
Speakers: Harry Reems - Cinema Sex Star
Alan Dershowitz, Defense Attorney
Date: December 13, 1976
Title: "Intelligence Out of the Shadows"
Speaker: William Colby - Former Director, Central Intelligence
Agency
Date: February 2, 1977
Speaker: Dick Gregory
Date: February 10, 1977
Title: "Can Law Enforcement Deter Crime?"
Panel: James Q. Wilson - Professor, Harvard
Joseph Jordan - Boston Police Commissioner
George V. Higgins - Attorney & Author
Date: February 16, 1977
Title: "The Covert Corruption of the
United States Senate"
Speaker: Edward M. Korry - Former Ambassador to Chile
Date: March 3, 1977
Title: "The Revolution of the
Professional Athlete"
Speaker: Bob Woolf - Sports Attorney
Date: March 7, 1977
Title: "The Supreme Court - Forty Years
in Retrospect"
Speaker: Paul Freund - Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Date: March 17, 1977
Title: "Law Reform in the U.S."
Speaker: John Connally
Date: April 11, 1977
Title: "New Directions in Business"
Speaker: Walter Wriston - Chairman, Citibank Corporation
Date: April 19, 1977
Title: "A Layman's Reflection on Civil
Rights"
Speaker: M. Carl Holman - President, National Urban Coalition
Date: April 25, 1977
Speaker: Jacques Cousteau - Oceanographer
Date: April 28, 1977
Speaker: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - "Gonzo Journalist"
Date: May 3, 1977
Speaker: Alger Hiss - Attorney
Date: May 5, 1977
Speaker: Chevy Chase - NBC Television Personality
Date: September 15, 1977
Speaker: Melvin Belli - "King of Torts"
[PHOTO]
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Date: September 28, 1977
Speaker: Julian Bond, Rights Activist
[PHOTO]
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Date: October 4, 1977
Speaker: E. Howard Hunt, Jr. - Watergate Personality
Date: October 13, 1977
Speaker: Betty Friedan
Date: October 25, 1977
Speaker: Carl Sagan - Astronomer and Exobiologist
[PHOTO]
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Date: November 14, 1977
Speaker: Jill Wine-Volner - Former Watergate Prosecuter
Date: December 1, 1977
Speaker: John Kenneth Galbraith - Economist and Author
[PHOTO]
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Date: January 26, 1978
Title: "Sneak Preview Movie - 'Coma'"
Speaker: Michael Chichton - Writer and Director
Date: February 9, 1978
Speaker: Jules Witcover - Syndicated Columnist
Date: February 23, 1978
Speaker: Fred Graham - CBS News
Date: March 16, 1978
Speaker: Louis Nizer - Attorney and Author
Date: April 9, 1978
Speaker: Lesley Stahl - CBS News
Date: April 16, 1978
Speaker: Tom Brokaw - Host, "Today Show"
Date: April 27, 1978
Title: "A New Model for American Legal
School"
Speaker: Joel Seligman & Lynne Bernabei - Authors of the
Forthcoming Book,
The High Citadel: The Influence of Harvard Law
School
Date: May 5, 1978
Speaker: Bowie Kuhn - Commissioner, Major League Baseball
Date: October 6, 1978
Speaker: Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. - Third Circuit Court of
Appeals,
Author, In the Matter of Color: Race and the
American Legal Process
Date: October 19, 1978
Speaker: Norman Lear - Television Producer
Date: November 2, 1978
Speaker: John Irving - Author, The World According to Garp
Date: November 29, 1978
Speaker: Michael Dukakis - D., Governor of Massachusetts
Date: December 5, 1978
Speaker: Bill Baird - Abortion Rights and Birth Control Activist
Date: February 13, 1979
Speaker: Shere Hite - Author, The Hite Report: A Nationwide
Study of Female
Sexuality
Date: February 27, 1979
Speaker: Kevin White - Mayor of Boston; Pres., U.S. Democratic
Mayor's Association
Date: March 15, 1979
Speaker: Dean Rusk - U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-1969
Date: April 5, 1979
Speaker: Hunter Thompson - "Gonzo" Journalist; Author, Fear
and Loathing: On the
Campaign Trail, The Great Shark Hunt
Date: November 6, 1979
Speaker: Hon. Abner Mikva - Court of Appeals Judge, Former U.S.
Congressman