in the next two minutes you'll see a series of mixed up scenes because we can't show you what really happened we'll have to tell you we're getting now to the heart of this matter the police housing which the committee calls that quote communist led riots first you must know that there were two police authorities in operation at city hall on this particular black friday there was no apparently is armed between them on one side rashard carberry on the other inspector mcguire of the city police the sheriff seemed to be working in one direction the inspector in another naturally there was confusion friday morning the sheriff approached the students saying in effect wait in the rotunda and i'll try to arrange for you to be admitted to the hearing room through no fault of his sheriff carberry could not make the necessary arrangements in time for the afternoon session in the meantime the responsible student leadership made several attempts to cooperate with the police rebuffed they sense the danger in the situation and made frantic efforts to contact the mayor or some other responsible city official no one was available at noon on friday the students start their efforts were to be successful that at last they were to be let in on a first come first served basis and again they were treated to the spectacle of the pass holders being admitted ahead of them they felt cheated they felt they'd been betrayed had led them to expect the afternoon sessions with the admissions on a more equitable basis ironically enough the sheriff had done as he promised he'd gotten the permission he was after and he was on his way back to city hall with that information when the whole thing began under inspector mcguire's direction a squad of policemen moved up the city hall stairs the students quieted down they expected the police to make them sta request for them to leave the building but nothing was said the committee's version keeps emphasizing that the students were warned it's true the police asked a few individual students to leave but there was never a general warning to the students no hint was given of what was to come out of the side of the students the police began calling the fire hoses the students tried to demonstrate their nonviolent intentions by sitting down some witnesses heard a policeman shout something to this effect so you want some of this to you where you're going to get it and then the water was turned on that's what really happened but here's the committee's version of what happened acquitted in the san francisco trials if you saw a life magazine of may twenty third one thousand nine hundred sixty you saw a photograph of meissen back standing perfectly dry over against the wall of the rotunda looking on while the students were being hosed not even the committee will suggest the communist tricks so adroit that a man can touch off a riot beat a police officer be granted with fire hoses and get away all dried off within a matter of seconds it can't be done and  wasn't done even the officer who supposedly was assaulted admitted after trial there was no barricade jumping by my son back and another curious fact despite all the experienced press and television cameramen on the spot all the footage that was taken no one has come forward with their single frame showing anyone jumping any barricade nor as the committee would have it quote any mob surging forward to storm the doors and quote do you see anything of that kind here you can bet that if it had occurred someone would have pictures of it and you can bet at even longer odds that if such pictures existed the committee would have publicized them far and wide look at the scenes the police rousting students from city hall which group is violence the students but the police and just suppose for the sake of argument that a student had leaped a barricade and assaulted  officer that would certainly be grounds for his arrest but that if it occurred have justified the police in handling all the students in this way the fact is no one leap barricade no one assaulted an officer then why did the police use the hoses only the police know that and they aren't saying there has been a widespread awareness not only in san francisco but nationally that the evidence points to brutality and violence on the part of the police rather than on the part of the students we ask you to grow your own conclusions remember that most of the scenes use are just prior to the hosing were actually taken that day before on thursday but the makers of operation abolition weren't satisfied with the truth it wasn't dramatic enough it didn't prove their point about a communist led riot so by combining the two demonstrations the film editors were able to create a distorted and crude but persuasive effect as we said before representative walker has tried to defend himself by saying the errors in the film are purely accidental you know now they were not accidental when the committee subpoenaed the film from the photographers all properly dated and labeled there was no excuse for error no excuse for mixing up the true sequence of events it's a matter of record that at least seven students were injured but operation abolition didn't include was the original newsreel film showing injured students lying prostrate and apparently unconscious on the floor of city hall or outside on the ground such scenes work carefully deleted by the committee's producers in contrast see now what tender concern they have product police in the words of the makes a good story from the committee point of view but the truth as shown by the official police report or is that after dunphy merely collapsed from exhaustion and other police injuries were minor why shouldn't they be minor no one was turning hoses on the police or dragging them downstairs and our late policemen were back at full time duty within three days the committee are so far all fleet tied in the students from the old communist people songbook and quote actually we shall not be moved is an old religious spiritual well known to people acquainted with folk music which appears in him novels and  presently the theme of certain demonstrators in the south these are the arrested students being but later charges against all but one robert mizen back were dismissed and mizen back was acquitted by a jury after less than three hours of deliberations now with all the talk in the committee's film about communist leaders and communist dupes only two of those arrested are even alleged to be communists and these two joined the group only after the hoses were turned down so even this flimsy pretext by the committee of communist provocation of police falls flat now the film shows you some are so called evidence of communists agitating california students into opposing the house committee and on american activit this includes clippings from the daily californian and the san francisco chronicle the implication is that these news stories on events surrounding the hearings are a result of communist inspiration showing a page from a again you will see actions of some of the witnesses under subpoena in the hearing room you're informed in operation appellation that in some way these witnesses were directly responsible for the demonstrations a mile away at union square after the demonstrators outside city hall and after those trying to get into the hearing the committee narrator tells you it's a communist tactic providences to defy it if so why does the committee subpoena the same witnesses again and again is it because they really think the witnesses will suddenly break down and make some dramatic disclosure or is it because they can't count on a stubborn defiant witness making a good newspaper story committee doesn't like statements from one kindly witnesses its rules say that any statement can be rejected as an attack i am a committee so any witness who dares disagree has no way of being heard either verbally or in the committee needn't have been surprised that this next witness william mandela's turned out to be hostile their narrator described him as quote and identified agent of the communist party and quote today expressed well they expected an outburst because this is great publicity in fairness to mr mandela it should be said that the testimony you hear was presented out of context sandels answered that he was a lecturer but left out and now we hear only part of his answer to the next question whether he was a party member and lectured that question  described by congressman gordon a cheer as a pop communist speeches and accused of agitating among the student demonstrators of course this accusation is totally unsupported and just as phony the crowd noises that were dumped into the film city hall today no i've just been an observer of the i understood you had said you were organizing protests against the committee one of the things that our committee does committee is to come to each community when the committee issued a subpoena to assist the subpoenaed persons and others in the community who are not familiar with the kind of unconstitutional what they called a a hard core communist local common just by mr sharon but never an international communist the far as the basic question is concerned until the supreme court  operation abolition but i company by narration of facts rather than unfounded statements and deliberate distortions i'm sure you now see that what happened in san francisco was not a communist led riot or even a group of young americans being killed by communists once you recognize this truth two questions then arrives why were the students there and why did the house committee on un american activities make this film first the student demonstrations increasingly students have become passionately involved in civil liberties issues these are good for us right american issues going back a long way to the declaration of independence to the bill of rights and coming right up to today with our serious national concerns for the civil rights of all americans there is a difference between communist dupes and high minded young men and women proud of their country's traditions of freedoms so openly proud of that tradition that they have the courage and conviction to protest the violations of those freedoms by the water committee the students protested by peaceful picketing they started mission to what had been announced as a public hearing and were denied on flimsy frustrating and conflicting grounds yes their reaction to this denial singing and chanting inside a public building may rightfully be criticised but as  record shows they maintain their self imposed passive resistance and acted on the whole with a restraint and courage not always matched by their elders now the second question why did the house committee on  american activities twist and distort this whole episode why did they play scenes out of sequence why did they leave out certain scenes why did they make narration statements that were totally unsupported either by the pictures or the facts why did they give special prominence to the misbehavior inside the hearing room of a few communists and alleged communists who had been subpoenaed we believe that the original film and that ration  carefully and deliberately designed to create the impression that all who oppose the committee are either communists or communists dupes in this manner the committee seeks to discourage further protests against it particularly among students and to inhibit freedom of speech and assembly get some americans have been duped but in this case the duping has been done by the house committee on un american activit markwell that they won't our committee did all this by indulging in a highly dubious bit of business using its subpoena power to seize private property belonging to television stations and turning it over to a committed commercial film producer who made the distribution and took the profits are disclosure of the distortion of this incident and the untruthfulness of operation abolition gives the american people a concrete example  irresponsible manner in which the house un american activities committee operates the a c l u supports the statement of the new york times when it says this whole un american operation by the un american activities committee is evidence not of the need for its continuance but need of its abolition of course we have urged before and that's why we have just shown you operation correction