Interview with David Pugh : The Movement Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- David Pugh describes how he became involved in activism at Stanford in the late 1960s and discusses how the Stanford chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other student activists put pressure on the university to end military research that supported the Vietnam War. He also describes his activism after his student days at Stanford.
- David Pugh describes how he became involved in activism at Stanford in the late 1960s and discusses how the Stanford chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other student activists put pressure on the university to end military research that supported the Vietnam War. He also describes his activism after his student days at Stanford. Pugh credits a chance encounter during a visit to Hong Kong in 1967 as the turning point that led him to become critical of the Vietnam War and join SDS, an anti-war and anti- imperialist student group, whose chapter at Stanford was intent on ridding the university of its ties to the military and research that supported the war. Pugh describes how he and other members of SDS invaded a Board of Trustees meeting at the Faculty Club in January 1969; the debate between student activists and members of the Board of Trustees in March 1969; and the April 1969 sit-in at the Applied Electronic Lab (AEL), which was part of the April 3 Movement (A3M) that called for the end of military research at Stanford. He describes the group’s participation in activism beyond campus, including supporting the San Francisco State student strike, the Black Panther Party, and striking workers at Standard Oil Refinery. He concludes the interview with a brief summary of how he continued his activism after Stanford, including his work as a high school and GED teacher in New York City.
Description
| Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical, text |
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| Extent | 1 audio file; 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | May 23, 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Pugh, David | |
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| Creator | Pugh, David | |
| Interviewer | Ochavillo, Vanessa | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Board of Trustees |
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| Subject | Student movements |
| Subject | Students for a Democratic Society > United States > Stanford University Chapter |
| Subject | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest Movements |
| Subject | Anti-war demonstrations |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biography |
Believing that the West Coast could offer something more interesting than his home state of New York, Dave Pugh arrived at Stanford in the fall of 1966, never having visited the campus before. Three years later, he was among the twenty-nine students who were suspended after “opening up” a Board of Trustees meeting at the Faculty Club in protest of trustees’ links to the Vietnam War.
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| Transcript |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/kd333yz5798 |
| Location | SC1432 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. For commercial permission requests, please contact the copyright holders.
- Copyright
- Copyright © David Pugh and Vanessa Ochavillo, 2018. All rights reserved.
Collection
The Movement oral history project, 2018
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