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Extraction Summary
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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
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Book draft / manuscript / legal exhibit
File Size:
2.66 MB
Summary
This document appears to be page 133 of a manuscript or memoir (likely by Alan Dershowitz, given the context of the Bruce Franklin case) produced to the House Oversight Committee. The text discusses First Amendment principles, specifically the 'violence veto,' and recounts the narrator's legal representation of Stanford Professor Bruce Franklin in 1970. It details Franklin's speeches inciting students to shut down the Stanford Computation Center, the subsequent police intervention, and Franklin's eventual firing by University President Lyman.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| The Narrator | Author/Attorney |
Describes representing Bruce Franklin at Stanford in 1970. (Contextually likely Alan Dershowitz).
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| Bruce Franklin | Tenured English Professor |
Client of the narrator; fired for inciting students during anti-war protests.
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| President Lyman | University President |
President of Stanford University who announced Franklin's firing.
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| Nazis | Historical Group |
Mentioned in relation to a free speech encounter in Skokie.
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Organizations (4)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Stanford University |
Location of the events described.
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| Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences |
Institution where the narrator was a fellow.
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| Stanford Computation Center |
Target of the anti-war rally and shutdown.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Producing body of the document (indicated by footer stamp).
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Timeline (3 events)
Fall 1970
Anti-war rally and shutdown of the Stanford Computation Center.
Stanford University
Fall 1970
Police action to clear the Computation Center involving force.
Stanford Computation Center
Fall 1970
Locations (3)
| Location | Context |
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Campus where the protests and firing occurred.
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City mentioned in a comparison regarding free speech and Nazis.
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Specific building targeted by protesters.
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Relationships (2)
I was asked to represent a tenured English professor named Bruce Franklin
President Lyman announced that Professor Franklin would be fired
Key Quotes (5)
"Speech, not violence, is protected by the First Amendment."Source
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Quote #1
"This “violence veto” should not be encouraged by the law."Source
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Quote #2
"[W]hat we’re asking is for people to make that little tiny gesture to show that we’re willing to inconvenience ourselves a little bit and to begin to shut down the most obvious machinery of war, such as—and I think it is a good target—that Computation Center."Source
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Quote #3
"advocated “the methods of people’s war.”"Source
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Quote #4
"substantial and manifest neglect of duty and a substantial impairment of his appropriate functions within the University community."Source
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Quote #5
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