1 hour piece, produced in 1970 by NET, originally shot in color. Witnesses appearing Thursday, July 16 will be: Eva Jefferson, president of the student body at Northwestern University; Jerry Wilson, chief of the Washington DC Metropolitan police; Steven Kelman, author of Push Comes to Shove, the Escalation of Student Protest; and Robert Rankin, vice president of Danforth Foundation. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) The three one-hour episodes highlight testimony from the public hearings of the Presidents Commission on Student Unrest. The nine-member commission was appointed by President Nixon after law enforcement men shot and killed students at Kent State University in Ohio and Jackson State College in Mississippi. The commission is investigating the causes of and possible solutions to campus unrest. Chairman of the commission is William W. Scranton, former Governor of Pennsylvania. Other members are: James F. Ahern, New Haven police chief; Erwin D. Canham, editor-in-chief, Christian Science Monitor; Dr. James E. Cheek, president of Howard University; Benjamin O. Davis, Cleveland police chief; Martha A. Derthick, professor of political science at Boston College; Bayless Manning, dean of Stanford University Law School; Revius O. Ortique Jr., former president of the National Bar Association; and Joseph Rhodes Jr., a Harvard Graduate School student whose published views have drawn sharp criticism from Vice President Spiro Agnew. David Prowitt, NETs Washington correspondent, is the anchor for the episodes, which are productions of National Educational Television. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
