To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: An address by John Henry Faulk, Part 1

before the forum is a public interdisciplinary meeting place for the wide ranging world of ideas opinion and analysis an american hero is this week's guest on university forum john henry faulk was the subject of a nationwide special television program in october nineteen seventy five for dramatic presentation of his famous legal battle against the blacklisting organization aware a lifelong advocate of free speech and open dialogue for was falsely blacklisted as a communist sympathizer in the nineteen fifties while he was working for cbs the loss of his job and a years long court battle followed as fault and his attorney louis niger sued for conspiracy to liable their victory has been hailed as a victory for free speech and against the forces of fear and repression we present now an address by john henry faulk recorded at the school of law at the university of texas at austin shortly after the nationwide television

special falk is a native of boston taxes and the title of his hometown addresses to secure the blessings of liberty all cool be introduced by jerry as williams of the school of law the summer of nineteen fifty five i took leave from the university of texas law school to go to new york city on a special project association of artist in your judge williams and i'm the family went there and spent that year joe mr falk and his family we contacted him shortly after our arrival in the fall and all was pleasant read events which transpire foot have become notorious which were the subject of a tv program two weeks ago began that year said that on mr falk of flights and this friend of nineteen fifty six he filed a lawsuit in june of nineteen fifty

sixth thinking in terms of this academic year it suddenly dawned on me that was exactly twenty years ago we're watching areas i was a lawyer yeah denny's were occasion first by phoebe difficulty in realizing that what was happening could happen in this country it was just all unbelievable for the problems also we're created because one by one says saw his friends who had been with him and backing him and working with him any attempt to eliminate

blacklisting in the entertainment industry by the wayside until late land is a very says analyst this was obviously a stray a disease occurring you know at that time he had a one hour for a long game other station of the columbia broadcasting system cbs radio station very effective program we have lots of sponsors he was feeling many the test engagements on radio and television has career was taking off so this is what we've raised when

he decided that as a matter of principle private group blacklisting over entertainers was after he was discharged the next year by cbs he returned whole or results john henry went to the public schools of austin he has his bachelor's and master's degree in english from the university of texas our home university of texas family factory just before he was a pleasant intimate friend of that great tree all our taxes letters of those not magnificent creative minds you are as well one final person or it was back in austin for the suit was going on we had a meeting of law professors from around the country i would say thirty or

thirty five of them to law school working on a grave scholarly project and i had them all out of the house for dinner and since they know about the lawsuit known about john henry faulk i asked him to come out because i thought the law professors would enjoy visiting with him informally about this lawsuit which and we don't want a full formal you can take during the early part of the evening as documentaries faculty members and then after a little while i came up to me and he said he's law professor for all from all the country icon a like a triathlon to one model its archrival hurt your partner weiss european and certainly when there are enjoying cup news that wasn't a marvelously i

still ski law professors from time to time that were there that i hadn't seen for many years who will come up to me and say say you remember that night of your house when john henry faulk we like a year that is to give you the facet how the fact that john henry has always given free of himself to his friends in his years to his friends and his family government and politics charity entertainment yemen for walleye but never getting yourself really and hardly anyone has ever given software to you as when the broader essay we persevered in a personal sacrifice business well we have a lot of those in this whole man world

who were being branded as disloyal warning you endo river also uses along behalf of our country uses on behalf of liberty it is hulu are in treme you off a hero of american freedom it's been jerri williams says i don't always though i think on the whole ruling class

or plead my gate zero cents no exactly right too but i certainly accept the spirit in which it was a very kind and generous and i'm afraid not reflect on the integrity of your english a little oh yes you worry about me lord have mercy and your analysis of those who assemble all sweetness and light and margarine

medicine is to really send persecuted and harris install all milo atlantis county oh most juries and matt we'll hear before i had achieved all at virgin goodness that you've been in about an advisor best way you treated me and very generously and so i was a human than inclined toward effects of osce it giving hamas verrilli we were also cautious second the front delay between mama's backdoor mr cowart im against marauding outlaws and scoundrels

all our comics and that we had prior long long before the pentagon every ride a bike you said ron indians one direction and i ran out was another and then we come back that means you get and we'd take turns that's a first give first numbers of dollars and sees one morning we were ocean literally and how so you might evolve on go out there and just back to execute it so we get up the forest because they lay down on the live oak tree and when jeremy lin and house with a whole and mama's ends in this world cheers you know we would review looking in and also i was

confronted by chickens liked it up six inches from mr mills who lived out his tongue and made it isn't always will stand me behind me and we made a new york and now la yeah yeah they all of those lovely until the sun so forth also security have been like an object of all these days even ran from here use carrots chicken snake let's take a state run from other hand half of you know chicken snake charmers her chin oh yeah oh yeah yeah i mean it goes beyond though relating an anecdote that does have a purpose i ask what the nineteen fifties about what must was all about what society founded

in the notion that frame and the government's sale of they were less free repression published statements rewrite easily assembled their neighbors to redress of grievances the freedom that they are the man who framed that change madison's chairman select committee and the urge carson seventeen at your regular basis what all over the wording of the vote for him a costume barbara rights for yourself your understand that these men were not afraid of freedom you're not afraid of man do you re do you throw into the open marketplace in a

kind of body in a ridiculous certain popular state money and expand free of any fear of repression and bacon sleeve of a society which we're all the beneficiaries because it was pretty exciting and the first time in the history of all mankind at such ideas and principles have been into a charter of government bases you are society charter government started off wean the people of the united states are far more union establish justice use your domestic tranquility revive our usual the formal agenda well where your fork to our sale the blessings of liberty to our sales and our austerity you are damon an

established this issue of the united states a lawyer named dennis thank you you are the keepers of the plane or when i say all that by way of say that with their lives in this society we all are restaurants it appears it is on the list this was was a broader narrow i have i have and most of you see that you haven't really everyone's got it was a terrifying period juan old year syracuse those principles on which are probably some of which others eric one point of anger could cause the land to drop it as you were career why it's just the rumor loose in the community it's an professors

professors of their ministers of the whole time again across this country you're in chinese ago matthew saw that over every other night i had certain reservations about the most part of course is just something that name might very clear about sex and wanting to our post cold rome milan and at the same time the whole sixteen million people out what's unusual a dragon's right where forty years ago would not handsome as all get out now yes it

is in a courtroom last three months haven't had a broadway be an entire new york press that manage your ego rain man from the euro moment you're saying vive la a reason to say in all of our last question we get more than two million dollars i don't care where your legs and they use a bar how long they have been with you most most there it's been a very chaotic but i got the reputation for having me yeah and

you let them is that in the play but across the country sexes man wins printed a million dollar all when record record allowable judge ste i don't leave anything on earth scare more info they get a text from all looks and crannies of a couple from japan and one from italy it's been really great ramadan is exceptions for the rhyme having said that i like the rural maine that movie of mine and said that i like very much i think it was brilliantly written by david when male i think it was a brilliantly acted by george c scott william devane and i apologize to you for not looking more lacking in

our yard alice is sure losses it makes you look like you've never been able to make peace but the ig said it's really a very fundamental one giacomo we think it's really were all these aol bomb something that must be in all honesty very literary fire was neither heroism and courage and say that say this was in a way that movie was written and it was in a way that a tragic case he wrote you see what matter made out of me during the he made and of course red tails it to give it continuity so and have dramatic impact only

much prefer rather than a dwelling on the individual john henry fall that they would have brought greater foe for all those issues that are here we are absolutely essential to the health of our republic today mainly the fact that this was not an act of her wit courage and i say that quite sincerely because believe me it is a short timer in our lighting system that moment try to trick a wife and change all very good job guarantees there was were not to commodities that i've ever been very long now it was an act of principles that it this way if one layer of boss of principle to one one has principal sherri shoes and holding absolutely essential to the sensor well rain to his whole sense of self respect we don't congratulate him on

online acting almost principal and if one has a global brands that you risk cherishes personal while the holy same rights the same ideology or another one was told live yours are precisely those one hour siege to be you made him shorter they are then you read a kate let's settle it all we really should congratulate one for playing the wall and acting on these principles of dozens maybe maybe that's our difficulty maybe it's become such a rare thing

with the lord emerson and that would be absolutely sparkling a long line but then i stayed outside let's find out who was a peppermint let me remind you who was led them both principal under attack the house un american activities committee forgive a very low her an old at south laid up there in washington and support the pigs all the united states yes garth writes these episodes question about their opinions and their association likes of jihad joe who wouldn't know we're now discovering are all aaron wherry walls at upholding supposedly the likes of private groups throughout the united states like where the know nothings

the sales and the vigilante organizations of the pack anyone who can follow our size of their definition there you are use racial justice question of what silent make that point very clear to not undo not they regarded as an act of anything and i would like to believe that everyone sitting in this role take the same course of action given the same set of circumstances sense just to enter the fraction in iraq pleading please don't treat me like you know you wrote about the original we got leaner and more modest tilling the ground our show

where thieves is that at the police at all mainly a larger indeed u three hundred million three million dollar get to her knees the dealer it is not make what to me is a terribly important thing that as we stand here on the brink and shoal of nineteen seventy six to celebrate our bicentennial i can't think of a more more appropriate birthday present to give to the memory of a memory of those who who sat

down for a charter of government but what we have fared so i are beneficiaries of that genius in the western an invasion of ocean aren't meant to reflect on it to me the reason we wondered so far from the reason fear took over and stampede of hits in the fifties and carrots into the sixties and indeed he landed a square dance in the middle of watergate she called or it has not been a national treasure in our society to study and each generation tvs are there are our youngsters are basically their basic freedoms are there basic guarantees of freedom mr so they don't know the most alien and they say they don't

want their neighbors are walter awful chronic icon leslie you speak of armies down about a whole huge void or an upper south offering no first amendment you believe in freedom's please yes one hundred gs is one hundred years three red one hundred in one hundred years is russia really one hundred years lakers beat your school no one hundred no we are so i gather broken klux klan or something like getting this is where we get to the short short rows of businesses where the genius of our founding fathers they constructed not only shelter though

we share a shareholder and already are very sad all relatives youngers though we know the disease already