Yes, Dan K. Moore. At that time we had one group of Trustees for the
University of North Carolina which was State and Chapel Hill and
Greensboro. The Governor was the chairman ex officio of the Board of
Trustees for these three institutions. So Dan K. Moore, the Governor, as
the Chairman of the Trustees said, "You can't have
him." And he said that, "We haven't really
got our regulations together yet," is what he said,
"So we can't say yes or we can't say no,
but we're saying no because we can't say
yes." So Apthecker was turned down by Governor Moore. He met
with the Executive Board and there were ten on the Executive Board and
then there were a hundred members, one from each county. It was a very
prestigious thing. They'd meet once a year and the Executive
Board ran things. So the hundred met and they had agreed on the
regulations which the Executive Board had said that there has to be a
senior professor present and so on. So then Paul Sharpe moved on. He was
here two years during the Speaker Ban Controversy and he had okayed
Apthecker and he got the rejection. What happened sort of, is that the
Duke students, naturally, invited Aptheker to come for that date and
President Knight at Duke said, "We'd be happy to
have him." So he spoke at Duke to a large turn out crowd. So
then the Trustees adopted the regulations and this time the campus
leaders decided they would invite him.
Paul Dixon was the President of the student body and they had…. I have the complaint here, but the President of
whatever in student government who is the follow up, so Paul Dixon was
the President and then the next person. Incidentally, if you go back,
Bob Spearman was the President of the student body during the Britt
Committee hearings and he testified against the bill; gave very eloquent
testimony. And Tommy Bellow was the student body president in
'63 or '64 and he came out. So we had four
successive college body presidents, very articulate and very effective
and persuasive against the bill. But Paul Dixon organized a committee
for free speech or something and he held a meeting in the largest
auditorium and they had two thousand students and they all agreed
unaminously that he should invite Apthecker. So he and a guy named Van
Loon who was the head of the Di Phi Society and whoever was the head of
the Tarheel. And Hank Patterson who is now with Norman
Smith's firm was a plaintiff. The campus leaders, the head of
the YMCA, they joined the two SDS leaders in issuing the invitation to
Aptheker and to Wilkinson. Wilkinson had pleaded the fifth before
California State committee, so he was in that second category. Let me
deviate one more little thing as well that comes to me. Burly Mitchell,
now state Supreme Court judge, had been the president of the Young
Democrats at State during this time and he invited the head of the Ku
Klux Klan to come figuring he's a third category, that
advocate the overthrow of the government by unlawful means. This was to
be their test of the Speaker Ban Law. The Attorney General, Wade Bruton,
ruled that the Ku Klux Klan was not within that category. So it was okay
to have the Ku Klux Klan. Back to UNC. It went to
Sitterson. Paul Sharpe had left the Chancellorship and Sitterson was the
acting Chancellor. He had been the Dean of Liberal Arts and he had
joined with Bill Friday and Bill Aycock and Paul Sharpe protesting the
law and he gave a great speech to the Phi Beta Kappa group on academic
freedom and the Speaker Ban Law which was published in the Tarheel and
all that. But he was an interim Chancellor and it got up to him and he
said, "No."