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Past Programs - Audio
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Many of the older selections have been
edited for broadcast on Boston Radio Station WHDH, which aired Forum
events from the late
1940's through the early 1970's. The more recent programs are presented
in unedited form.
"Crisis
in Education" (Nathan Pusey - President, Harvard
University; Frederick Weed - Headmaster, Roxbury Latin School; Dr. Robert
Ulich - Harvard Graduate School of Education; Lee Dunn - Senior Advisor,
Boston Latin School; moderator David Cavers - Assoc. Dean, Harvard Law School)
- October 22, 1954
Walter
Reuther, "Priorities for Survival"- May 1, 1960
General
Maxwell Taylor, "Blueprint for Defense" (with panel including Dr.
Henry Kissinger and others) - April 21, 1961
"The
First Hundred Days" (Barry Goldwater and others) - April 30, 1961
"Unrest
Within the Democratic Party" (Eleanor Roosevelt and others) -
May 1, 1961- Part
I, Part II
Dr.
Leo Szilard (Professor of Bio-Physics, University
of Chicago; Developer
of Atomic Chain Reaction with Enrico Fermi) "Are We on the Road to War?"
- November 17, 1961
Billy
Graham, "Evangelism and the Intellectual"-
April 1, 1962 - Part I, Part II
Jimmy
Hoffa, "Area Contracts and the Teamsters" -
April 8, 1962 - Part I, Part II
Martin
Luther King, Jr., "The Future of Integration" -
October 24, 1962 - Part I, Part II
Madame
Ngo Dinh Nhu, Member of Parliament, South Vietnam - October
14, 1963
Allen
Dulles, "The Role of Intelligence in Policy
Making" - December 13, 1963
Malcolm X - "The African Revolution and Its Impact on the American
Negro" - December 16, 1964 - 30
second audio clip only
General
Lewis Hershey, Director of The Selective Service System, "Future of the
American Draft" - November 21, 1965
Bishop
Fulton Sheen, "God and the Intellectual" -
February 13, 1966
"Women
- Dare We Not Discriminate?" - Betty Friedan (Author, The
Feminine Mystique), Mary I. Bunting (President,
Radcliffe College), Pauli Murray (Lawyer, Author, Jane
Crow and the Law) - February 18, 1966
Edward
Bennett Williams (Counsel to Joe McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby
Baker, Adam Clayton Powell...) - October 14, 1966
"LSD:
Methods of Control" (Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. Norman Zinberg) - November
4, 1966
"$50
Billion for What? The Federal Welfare Program" (Dr. Ellen
Winston, Edward C. Banfield, Daniel P. Moynihan) - December 9, 1966
"The
Johnson Presidency" - Panel discussion with Prof. Hans Morgenthau, Robert
Novak, and Prof. Adam Yarmolinsky - March 17, 1967
"American
Movies: Growing Up?" - Panel discussion with Joshua Logan
(Warner Brothers;
Producer-Director of "Camelot"), Judith Crist
(Film and Drama Critic, NBC-TV), Shirley Clark - (Director, "Underground,"
"Portrait of Jason") - October 27, 1967
"Abortion: The Issues" - Panel discussion with Dr. Alan
Guttmacher (President, Planned Parenthood); Robert F. Drinan, S. J.
(Dean,
Boston College Law School); Hon. Albert Blumenthal (New York General Assembly)
- December 4, 1967 - Part
I, Part
II
Justice
Tom C. Clark (U.S. Supreme Court, Retired) - December 6, 1967 -
Part I, Part II
Dr. Wernher Von Braun, "After the Moon --What?" - September 6, 1970 - Part
I, Part
II
George
McGovern, "U.S. Foreign Policy: A Critique" - October 28, 1982
Ernest
"Fritz" Hollings (U.S. Senator, D, South Carolina), "Economic Alternatives for the 80's"
- October 25, 1983
Caspar
Weinberger - November 11, 1983
Alan
Cranston (U.S. Senator, D., California), "Peace and
Jobs" - November 30, 1983
Shimon
Peres, "Israel: Today and Tomorrow" -
December 5, 1983
Andrew Young
(Mayor of Atlanta; Former U.S. Ambassador
to the U.N.), "Civil Rights with a Global Perspective" - April 8, 1984
(first few minutes missing)
Stevie
Wonder - April 19, 1984
Phyllis
Schlafly - "The ERA - Is There a Future?" - April 25, 1984
Rev.
Jerry
Falwell, "The Role of Religion in Politics" (introduction by Professor
Laurence Tribe) - September 20, 1984
Commandante
Daniel Ortega (Coordinator of the Government of National Reconstruction of
Nicaragua; Presidential Candidate, Nicaragua) (introduction by Carlos Fuentes)
- October 8, 1984
Joseph
Wapner (Judge, "The People's Court") - "Law, The Media, and 'The People's Court'"
- October 25, 1984
Peter
Jennings (ABC World News Tonight Anchorman and Chief
Correspondent), "U.S.-Soviet Relations: A View From the
Media" - February 21, 1985
Cesar Chavez (President, United Farm Workers of America) -
"The New Grape Boycott -- Will it Work in the Eighties?" - February 28,
1985 - Part
I, Part
II
John
Chancellor (Commentator, NBC Nightly News),
"Lawyers and Journalists: Differences and Similarities" -
April 11, 1985
Simon
Wiesenthal (Investigator of Nazi War Criminals),
"Murders Among Us/ Consequences of the Holocaust" - November 16,
1985
Ed
Koch - "Juvenile Crime" - February 12, 1986
Ruth
Bader Ginsberg (Judge, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals) -
February 16, 1986
Rev.
William Sloane Coffin, "Religion and Politics" - February 25, 1986
Willie
Brown, "Politics and the Press" - October 2, 1986
Rev.
Jerry
Falwell, "The Evangelical Vote: Is It Monolithic?" - October
6, 1986
Carl
Sagan, "The Nuclear Arms Race" - October 23, 1986
Ted
Turner - October 29, 1986
Rev.
Jesse Jackson - Harvard Law School Forum Fortieth Anniversary Lecture -
November 11, 1986
Dan
Rather, "The Changing Role of Television News in America" - November
18, 1986
Sergio
Ramirez (Vice-President of Nicaragua), "Nicaragua versus U.S. in the
World Court: American Policy on Trial" - November 24, 1986
General
William Westmoreland, "My Experiences with the Media -
March 2, 1987 - Part I, Part II
Christy
Hefner (President & CEO, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.),
"Media, Morality and the First Amendment" - April 7, 1987
Paul
Kirk (Chairman, Democratic National Committee), "The Politics of Values and the Value of Politics -
1988" - April 16, 1987
Judith
Martin ("Miss Manners"), "Miss Manners Lays Down the Law"
- April 22, 1987
Dennis
Conner (Skipper, "Stars and Stripes"),
"The America's Cup: Past, Present and Future" - October 21, 1987
Lesley Stahl
(Moderator, "Face the Nation"), "Network Television News Coverage in Washington, D.C."
- November 2, 1987
Rudolph
Giuliani, "Organized Crime, Corruption, and Insider Trading:
Current Happenings in the U.S. Attorney's Office" - November 9, 1987
Arturo
Cruz (Former Director, Unified Opposition in Nicaragua),
"Why I Left the Contras" - November 19, 1987
Sheikh Zaki Yamani
(Former Minister of Petroleum, Saudi Arabia), "Islam and Its Legal System: Past, Present and
Future" November 24, 1987
Marybeth
Whitehead Gould (Surrogate Mother in the "Baby M"
Case) and Harold Cassidy (attorney to Ms. Gould),
"The Baby M Case and its Effects on the Future of
Surrogate Motherhood" - February 10, 1988
"The Homeless Crisis: A Street View"
- Joyce Brown ( Homeless Woman who challenged NYC's
Homeless Policy) with her attorneys Norman Siegel & Robert Levy,
NYCLU - February 18, 1988
Erma
Bombeck, "The Exploitation of Kids, Family and Marriage for Profit"
- March 15, 1988
Scott
Turow, "1L Revisited: Thoughts on Legal
Education After 10 Years in Legal Practice" - April 25, 1988
Alejandro Serrano Caldera
(Nicaraguan Ambassador to the
United Nations, Former President of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court) -
December 1, 1988
Edward
Asner, "Patriotism and Other Spectator Sports" - December 12, 1988
William Sessions
(Director, FBI), "Balancing Individual Rights
with the Rights of Society: Sensitive Investigative Techniques" -
February 8, 1989
Madeline Kunin (Governor of Vermont), "The Power Shift to the States: View from the
Executive Branch" - February 13, 1989
Marion Barry (Mayor of Washington, D.C.) - "The
90's Challenge to Public Service" - October 30, 1989 - Part
I, Part
II
Maynard Jackson (Mayor of Atlanta) - April 25, 1990 - Part
I, Part
II
C.
Boyden Gray (Special Counsel to President Bush), "The Bush Administration's Environmental and Energy
Policy" - October 23, 1990
Arthur
Liman (Fmr. Chief Senate Counsel, Iran-Contra Investigation;
Fmr. President, Legal Aid Society of New York; Fmr. Chief Counsel, New York Special Commission on
Attica) - "Can Congressional Investigations Be Conducted
Fairly?" - November 14, 1991
Edwin
Meese III (Former U.S. Attorney General), "Freedom,
Free Speech and the Courts" - February 10, 1992
F.
Lee Bailey, "Television in the Courts" - February 27, 1992
Nadine
Strossen (President, American Civil Liberties Union),
"Civil Liberties and the Supreme Court" - March 4, 1992
Dr.
Ruth Westheimer - December 10, 1992
Jean
Bertrand Aristide (President of Haiti) - April 8, 1994
"Public
Policy Responses to the Changing Dynamics of the AIDS Epidemic" - panel
discussion with Kristine Gebbie (National AIDS Policy Coordinator), Nicolās Parkhurst
Carballeira (Executive Director, Boston's Latino Health Institute), Rodger
McFarlane (Executive Director, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS), Mindy Thompson
Fullilove (Assoc. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health, Columbia University),
moderator Jean McGuire (Former Executive Director, AIDS Action Council) -
April 26, 1994
Charlton
Heston, "Winning the Cultural War" - February
16, 1999 -
Part
I (prepared remarks); Part
II - Q&A
Asa
Hutchinson, "Prosecuting the President:
Reflections of a House Manager" - March 22, 1999
Vince
McMahon (Chairman, Titan Sports, Inc., World Wrestling
Federation), "The First
Amendment Firsthand" (edited) - April 15, 1999
Mario Cuomo, "Public Spirit in the Private
Sector" - April 20, 1999 - Part I, Part
II
Ralph Nader, "The Laws, The Practice, The Education: Continuing Illusion or Wake-up
Time?" - October 29, 1999 - Part I, Part II
Jack
Gargan (Chairman-elect, The Reform Party) "New Politics for the New
Millennium" - December 2, 1999
Helen
Thomas (Senior White House Correspondent, UPI),
"Covering the Presidents: From Kennedy to Clinton" - February 23,
2000
Stephen
Reinhardt (Judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals),
"The Supreme Court and You: Life, Death and the Quality of Life" -
March 1, 2000
Nadine
Strossen (President, American Civil Liberties Union),
"Current Challenges to Civil Liberties" - March 7, 2000
"Innocent
on Death Row: The Causes of and Remedies for Unjust Convictions" -
panel discussion with Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer (authors, Actual
Innocence); Richard Lewontin (Professor of Population Genetics, Harvard);
Bill Kovach (Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard); Michael
Seidman (Professor of Criminal Law, Georgetown); moderator Charles Nesson
(Professor, Harvard Law School) - March 15, 2000
Arun
Gandhi (Director, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence),
"The Enduring Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi: Lessons Learned from
Grandfather" - March 20, 2000
Joel
Klein (Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S.
Department of Justice), "Antitrust in the New Economy" -
April 10, 2000
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