Ford Hall Forum Recordings
This page includes audio, video, and transcripts of Ford Hall Forum’s lectures, programs, and the New American Gazette radio series. The majority of the lectures date from 1981-2013 with the exception of one recording from 1923 and a small number from the 1960s and 1970s.
For a full list of the collection, including non-digitized items, browse the Ford Hall Forum Collection Finding Aid
Many additional recordings are held by the Boston Public Library, WGBH, and Northeastern, please consult their Archives for more information.-
Frances Moore Lappé and Deborah Toler discuss, "World Hunger: Lesson of Ethiopia" at Ford Hall Forum, audio recording, 10/20/1985
Frances Moore Lappé and Deborah Toler
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Beyers Naudé's speech at Ford Hall Forum, "South Africa," Parts 1 and 2 , audio recording and transcript, 10/27/1985
Beyers Naudé
Reverend Beyers Naudé, an Afrikaner and General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, discusses the future of apartheid in South Africa.
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David Halberstam's speech, "The Effect of Sports on American Society" at the Ford Hall Forum, audio recording, 10/4/1984
David Halberstam
David Halberstam, the author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be, examines professional sports and their effect on American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ponders the similarities between sports and politics, the influence of television on sports and college recruitment of our young athletes.
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William Colby and John Stockwell discuss, "The CIA: America's Secret Foreign Policy" at Ford Hall Forum, audio recording, 10/128/1984
John Stockwell and William Egan Colby
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Angela Davis speech, "Organized Struggle Against Racial and Political Repression" at the Ford Hall Forum, transcript, 5/10/1975
Ford Hall Forum and Angela Davis
