Tag: Vietnam War

Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Ken McKenna in 1985

Ken McKenna I’ve been told that you were on The Hill during the infamous riot. What do you remember about the riot? It was more of a drunken brawl than a political protest. It was more of a conflict between the cops and the street people. It was propagated because they closed the bars down […]

Oral History of Boulder, Colorado in the 1960s — Interview with Howard Higman (Founder of The World Affairs Conference) in 1985

Howard Higman Howard Higman (25 April 1915 – 22 November 1995)  was an American sociologist[1] notable as the founder of The World Affairs Conference in 1948 To begin with, at the beginning of the ‘60s Quigg Newton was the President of C.U. He had been a former mayor of Denver, and after he had campaigned for […]