[UM Bangor commencement]

DateJune 4 1970

AbstractSilent footage of the first commencement at the University College campus in Bangor; with sound Dick Gregory & Abe Fortas address the University of Maine Class Day at Orono; Dick Gregory tells the students they have an important job ahead because they must say that mother America is sick; Abe Fortas recalls Margaret Chase Smith and her concerns about the danger of reaction from the right and from the extremes of the left, and that as a result the nation may find itself in a repeat performance of the unspeakable bitterness and ugliness of the McCarthy days; Gordon Manuel summarizes the remarks of both Gregory and Fortas as urging non-violence;