Event Details
Historical (1970s context)
Description
Firing of Professor Franklin
Participants (4)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Dershowitz | person | 381 | View Entity |
| Franklin Veaux | person | 12 | View Entity |
| President Lyman | person | 4 | View Entity |
| MIT | organization | 1258 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017221.jpg
This document appears to be a page from a manuscript or memoir by Alan Dershowitz, submitted as evidence to the House Oversight Committee (Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017221). It details Dershowitz's historical defense of a professor named Franklin at Stanford University, his collaboration with research assistant Joel Klein, and his public conflict with Stanford President Lyman regarding First Amendment rights. The text describes the Faculty Committee's decision to fire Franklin for urging students to occupy a computation center and Dershowitz's subsequent lecture criticizing the faculty's stance on civil liberties.
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