It is the case among the students now, and everyone knows it today only because of Berkeley. Like everyone else in Berkeley who has written about these events, I have taken sides. We were all involved. Objectivity is another matter. What I did commit myself to, actively, was defense of the Free Speech Movement before the university community, both at FSM rallies and at other meetings on and around the campus.
Factual accuracy is still another matter.
Virtually all accounts of the Berkeley movement that I have seen, on all sides, are peppered with errors of fact, often quite untendentious. More than once, in checking points of detail with people who were on the spot, I was able to confirm the famous lawyers', historians' and psychologists' principle that few people remember accurately what happens before their very eyes. I owe a debt of gratitude for scores of changes and modifications, especially but not only on the factual side. Of course none of these bears any responsibility whatsoever for the present form of this book or any opinions expressed in it. In addition, there is a long list of participants whom I have interviewed on specific points.