Oakland Induction Center
During the Vietnam War young male draftees would arrive at the Oakland Induction Center on Clay Street for processing and physical exams. Throughout this period, anti-war activists would conduct protests outside the Induction Center. Much of our collection centers on street reporting from Colin Edwards during Stop the Draft Week 1967. In California, Stop the Draft Week organizers led 3000 marchers to the Oakland Induction Center on October 16, 1967. When marchers refused police orders to leave, police attacked them with nightsticks, injuring 20. On the second day, demonstrators returned to the Induction Center, and this time 97 were arrested. On the third day, 10,000 protesters arrived, this time retreating in orderly fashion but also successfully blocking streets as they departed.This collection also includes coverage of the mutiny on the Coral Sea, anti-war demonstrations and speeches on the UC Berkeley campus, audio excerpts from a protest at Port Chicago and other anti-war content.
Documents
Berkeley Train Incident Actuality/Anti-Vietnam War appeals to Mexican Ship
Date: 9/5/1965Call Number: CE 897Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
The Vietnam Day Committee, a group of organizing activists bent on not only symbolically objecting to the war but also taking the direct action to disrupt the cogs of war, attempts to appeal to the crew of the El Maxicano ship, in Spanish. The protest not only was meant to call out the criminal and imperialist Vietnam War but also to speak against the criminal exploitation of foreign labor. The second piece of the reel deals with a summation of the sequence of protests against the Vietnam War held at the Berkeley campus against the back drop of a New McCarthy era looming on campus.
Coral Seas Revolt
Date: 11/19/1971Call Number: CE 931Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ips full trackProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
Includes not only a comprehensive detail of the factors and events that culminated in the Coral Seas Revolt, but discusses the reluctance to cooperate in war that many sailors felt, and the punishment delivered by higher ranking officers. In addition there are interviews with sailors and organizers of the revolt.
Anti-War Rally April 27th 1968 Reel 2
Date: 4/27/1968Call Number: CE 928Volume Number: Reel 2Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
A continuation of speeches and rallying cries recorded at the April 27th rally which followed a Peace March. This reel also contains a speech from Muhammad Ali speaking to the need for Black unity under one leader.
Anti-War Rally April 27th 1968 Reel 1
Date: 4/27/1968Call Number: CE 927Volume Number: Reel 1Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
This recording follows a march against the Vietnam War (in memory of Martin Luther King). Admiral Truth: Discusses political lies, the right to national self-determination, speaks out against the draft and neo-colonialism. Includes the lead-in to the Muhammad Ali speech on the second tape.
Phone-in report from Oakland Induction Center
Date: 4/23/1968Call Number: CE 925Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
A summation of the events of a demonstration held on April 23, 1968 in front of the Oakland Induction Center. This tape details police tactics that include the targeting of leaders of the anti-War movement based purely on identification alone in an attempt to suppress the movement.
Oct 16 Demo Oakland Induction Center Reel 1
Date: 10/16/1967Call Number: CE 903Volume Number: Reel 1Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
A description of a picket blocking the Oakland Induction Center. Includes an interview with picketers, particularly Joan Baez, a prominent singer and activist of the time. Interviews with protesters following the abduction of multiple picketers by police, as well as the impact of the protests on those in the process of being drafted.
Oct 16 Demo Oakland Induction Center Reel 2
Date: 10/16/1967Call Number: CE 904Volume Number: Reel 2Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
Outlines the series of events connected to both demonstrators and the sit-ins they staged in front of the Oakland Induction Center in order to stop the registering of Vietnam War draftees. Also includes narrative pertaining to both police brutality and the targeted arrests of protesters.
Oakland Induction Center KPFA Coverage
Publisher: KPFA RadioDate: 10/17/1967Call Number: CE 906Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
With coverage beginning at 7am with a news broadcast, this details demonstrations of protest against the Vietnam War signified by individuals attempting to turn in their draft cards. This protest was also met with police brutality by both the Oakland Police Department and the California Highway Patrol, as well as a businessman attempting to affect citizens arrest on protesters attempting to turn in their draft cards.
UC Rally (the Day Before) Oakland Induction Center Protests
Date: 10/17/1967Call Number: CE 912Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
A recording of the rally that preceded the following day's protest at the Oakland Induction Center. Taking place in Berkeley the agenda of the rally informs demonstrators of what the goals for the next day will be as well as what to expect from police and other law enforcement agents.
Spring Mobilization '67 Reel 1
Date: 4/15/1967Call Number: CE 901Volume Number: Reel 1Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
Begins with a brief deliberation by Reagan on the limitations of dissent. Continues to a narration of Colin Edwards detailing the spring mobilization against the Vietnam War in San Francisco.