Footnotes
1. Jessica Mitford, A Fine Old Conflict (New York, Knopf, 1977)
2. The other allegiance of the Pins and Needles cast was the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
3. Later U.S. Senator from Oregon.
4. Carl Bernstein, Loyalties (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).
5. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
6. Ray Thompson had several taped oral histories completed, which are deposited in the Northern California Center for Afro-American
History and Life in Oakland, California.
7. Harry Bridges died on March 30, 1990. Several articles were published in San Francisco Bay Area newspapers at the time, commemorating
his life. For example,
“S.F. Labor Leader Harry Bridges Dies,”
by Carl Nolte, appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 31, 1990, beginning on page 1.
8. Irish Republican Army.
9. Gideon vs. Wainwright was a landmark decision that allowed clients to have access to their attorneys during interrogations.
10. Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963).
11. William Manchester, Death of a President (New York: Harper and Row, 1967).
12. Red Finns are Communists. White Finns (so-called by us Reds) could be anything, politically. Some, I'm sure, wanted to call
themselves Socialists, but all were regarded as anti-us, and therefore anti-progressive, and certainly anti-Soviet. There
are two Finnish halls in Berkeley. One is clearly Red; it houses The People's World and various Party affiliates. R.T.
13. Eugene Mannila and Emil Sekerak have been interviewed on tape for the CCB Oral History Collection.
14. George Little was President of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Board of Directors in 1964. Little (and his wife, Angela)
have had taped oral histories completed by the Berkeley Historical Society for the CCB Oral History Collection.
15. Jim Dunbar co-hosted the show, "A.M." ("A.M. San Francisco") on ABC TV in the 1960s.
16. Robert Arnold was interviewed on tape by the Berkeley Historical Society for the CCB Oral History Collection
17. Ray Thompson died in his eighties in 1988.
18. Alameda County Supervisor John George died in December, 1989.
19. Matt Crawford has been interviewed on tape by the Berkeley Historical Society in 1988-1989 for the CCB Oral History Collection.
20. Emil Sekerak has added his remarks about this issue to his taped oral history by the Berkeley Historical Society.
21. Refer to the Appendix for a letter signed by S. I. Hayakawa, appearing on page 48 of the San Francisco Chronicle, dated January 3, 1967.
22. Refer to the Appendix for a letter signed by Robert E. Treuhaft, appearing on page 40 of the San Francisco Chronicle, dated January 5, 1967.
23. Earl Warren was Governor of the State of California from January 4, 1943 to October 5, 1953.
24. Robert W. Kenny was Attorney General of the State of California from 1944 to 1947.
25. Elaboration on this and other events discussed by Robert Treuhaft in his oral history can be found in the book: Miller, Michael
V. and Gilmore, Susan, Eds., Revolution at Berkeley (New York: Dell Publishing, 1965, p. 118).
26. William W. Turner,
“I Was a Burglar, Wiretapper, Bugger, and Spy for the FBI”
, Ramparts, Vol. V, No. 5, November 1966, pp. 51-55.
27. Edmund G. Brown, Sr. began his first term as Governor of the State of California in January, 1959.
28. The Black newspaper in San Francisco was the Sun-Reporter.