Extremists rile campus at Oregon

East Oregonian (OR)

By Steven Dubois

"The students stomped their feet, heckled and then stood and turned their backs as the speaker at the University of Oregon defended red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy and called Martin Luther King Jr. a communist dupe."

"With more than 30 security officers assigned to keep the peace, the 90-something patriarch of the Pacifica Forum, Orval Etter, sat in a wheelchair next to the speaker, silently observing the spectacle while at times half-asleep..."

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