About this episode

This episode features an announcement made by Chancellor Robert W. MacVicar regarding events at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in May 1970, along with readings from a related memoir.

Special Report (7/9/2026) In this special we hear a portion of an announcement ( https://youtu.be/IqkY-Fwl8zA?si=aNP8PO2K2BbC5IPu ) that was made at 11:30 PM on Tuesday May 12, 1970 by Southern Illinois University Carbondale Chancellor Robert W. MacVicar in studio with Ed Brown. We also read some more from SiUC's Days of Dissent: A Memoir of Student Protest (2007)( https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16482176M/SIUC%27s_days_of_dissent ) which we first discussed in our special Carbondale Part 1 ( https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-report-carbondale ).

People in this episode

Host: Nicholas Shillingford

Topics covered

• Carbondale
• student protest
• historical announcement
• Southern Illinois University
• May 1970
• memoir

Keywords

• Carbondale
• Robert W. MacVicar
• Ed Brown
• student protest
• Southern Illinois University
• announcement
• memoir

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Books & works: SIUC's Days of Dissent: A Memoir of Student Protest

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