Editing Teach-in (section)

===Teach-in at U.C. Berkeley===
The largest Vietnam teach-in was held on May 21–22, 1965 at [[University of California, Berkeley|U.C. Berkeley]]. The event was organized by the newly formed [[Vietnam Day Committee]] (VDC), an organizing group founded by ex-grad student [[Jerry Rubin]], Professor [[Stephen Smale]], and others. The event was held on a playing field where [[Zellerbach Hall|Zellerbach Auditorium]] is now located. Over the course of 36 hours, an estimated 30,000 people attended the event.<ref>{{cite book|last=Farrell|first=James J. |title=The spirit of the sixties: making postwar radicalism|publisher=Routledge|year=1997|isbn=0-415-91386-1}}</ref>
The State Department was invited by the VDC to send a representative, but declined. UC Berkeley professors [[Eugene Burdick]] and Robert A. Scalapino, who had agreed to speak in defense of President Johnson's handling of the war, withdrew at the last minute. An empty chair was set aside on the stage with a sign reading "Reserved for the State Department" taped to the back.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rorabaugh|first1=W.J.|title=Berkeley at war: the 1960s|url=https://archive.org/details/berkeleyatwar19600rora|url-access=registration|date=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=0195066677}}</ref> {{rp|91–94}}

Participants in the event included Dr. [[Benjamin Spock]]; veteran socialist leader [[Norman Thomas]]; novelist [[Norman Mailer]]; independent journalist [[I. F. Stone]] and historian [[Isaac Deutscher]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Isaac Deutscher, UC Berkeley Teach-In, May 1965|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet/deutschertranscript.html|website=Library, University of California, Berkeley|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> Other speakers included: California Assemblymen [[Willie Brown (politician)|Willie Brown]], [[William Stanton (California Assemblyman)|William Stanton]] and [[John L. Burton|John Burton]]; [[Dave Dellinger]] (political activist); James Aronson ([[National Guardian]] magazine); philosopher [[Alan Watts]]; comedian [[Dick Gregory]]; [[Paul Krassner]] (editor, [[The Realist]]); [[M.S. Arnoni]] (philosopher, writer, political activist); [[Edward Keating]] (publisher, [[Ramparts Magazine]]); [[Felix Greene]] (author and film producer); Isadore Zifferstein (psychologist); Stanley Scheinbaum ([[Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions]]); [[Paul Jacobs (activist)|Paul Jacobs]] (journalist and anti-nuclear activist); [[Hal Draper]] (Marxist writer and a socialist activist); Levi Laud ([[Progressive Labor Movement]]); Si Casady ([[California Democratic Council]]); [[George Clark (activist)|George Clark]] (British [[Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)|Committee of 100]]/[[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]]); Robert Pickus (Turn Toward Peace); [[Bob Moses (activist)|Bob Moses]] ([[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]); [[Jack Barnes (politician)|Jack Barnes]] (National Chair of the [[Young Socialist Alliance]]); [[Mario Savio]] ([[Free Speech Movement]]); Paul Potter ([[Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)|Students for a Democratic Society]]); and Mike Meyerson (national head of the Du Bois Clubs of America). British philosopher and pacifist [[Bertrand Russell]] sent a taped message to the teach-in.

Faculty participants included Professor [[Staughton Lynd]] (Yale); Professor [[Gerald Berreman]]; and Professor [[Aaron Wildavsky]]. Performers included folk singer [[Phil Ochs]]; the improv group [[The Committee (improv group)|The Committee]]; and others. The proceedings were recorded and broadcast, many of them live, by Berkeley FM station KPFA. Excerpts from the speeches by Lynd, Wildavsky, Scheer, Potter, Krassner, Moses (credited as Bob Parris, his middle name), Spock, Stone, Gregory, and Arnoni were released the following year as an LP by Folkways Records, FD5765.<ref>{{cite web|title=Berkeley Teach-In: Vietnam. Voices and Documents.|url=http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW05765.pdf|website=Smithsonian Folkways|publisher=Folkways Records|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> An online archive, including recordings and transcripts of many of the participants, is maintained by the Library of the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet.html#65anti | title = The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project:Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond | publisher = University of California Berkeley Library | access-date = 8 December 2016 }}</ref>