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by Larry C. Couvillon
Battalion Reporter
Radio and television personal-
John Henry Faulk said Tues-
lythat the First Amendment is
emost precious guarantee for
free exchange of ideas.
“People should censor the
" J ivernment — the government
j |l| louldn’t censor the people,"
T|U lulk told an audience in the
lerling C. Evans Library.
Faulk, 79, told how he fought
“vigilante group” called
fare, Inc., which during the
cCarthy era tried to “suppress
■mmunistic conspiracies in the
dioand TV industry.” Aware
prosper® ^ y ac kjj st anyone who criti-
M ed the government, he said,
else to'
Faulk was host on a radio
program for CBS until 1957,
when he was blacklisted by
Aware for speaking out against
them. He was labeled a com
munist sympathizer and no one
would hire him.
“I come from a line of fron
tier-type fighters, and I had to
fight back.”
Faulk said his reputation and
career were seriously hurt as a
result of the blacklist and he
sued Aware for libel.
But Aware didn’t have much
of case, he said. The group
argued that Faulk had spoken at
a dinner where a well-known
communist attended. He said
that was true — he had spoken at
a dinner for United Nations de
legates. The “well-known com
munist” was Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Faulk asked for $2 million in
damages, he said, but was
awarded $3.5 million, of which
he only collected a fraction.
Faulk was called a defender of
personal freedom by newspap
ers, but despite the hero role, he
said he couldn’t figure out why
he had gone ahead with such a
heroic act.
He said he studied American
history to find out why and real
ized that the American found
ing fathers believed deeply in
their cause for freedom and
posterity. He said he’s part of
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Freshmen
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Beaumont
Stanley Rafe Foreman
Idalou
Michael Andrew Hachtman
Dallas
Michael Sean Royall
Cypress
Suzanne Yvette Thomas
Plano
Sophomores
David Richey Alders
Nacogdoches
Angela Ann Dodd
Farmers Branch
Jimmy W. W. Gilbreath
Saginaw
Harold Mark Holubec
Diboll
David James Lusk
College Station
Linda Gertrude Thomas
Dallas
Cheryl Lea Burke
Bryan
Mario Garza Jr.
San Antonio
Raul Hinojosa III
Burke, Virginia
Jeffrey Anthony Danzinger
Sacramento, California
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Columbia, Missouri
David George Franz Jr.
Houston
Janet Denise Franks
Abilene
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Longview
Emma Baumgardner
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Diana Lynne Cooper
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San Antonio
J. Mark Hearn
Houston
Lauren Kay Specht
Marion
Patrick Henry Wood III
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H. Darryl Heath
Houston
Fred P. Billings
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Brian D. Terrell
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Houston
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Grand Prairie
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Dallas
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Bay City
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Port Neches
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Midland
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Temple
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