A group of University of Michigan students conceived of the teach-in "The Bicentennial Dilemma: Who's In Control?" in response to a television interview with Frank Church, "chairperson of the Senate Select Committee probing the Intelligence Community" in which he stated that "the Intelligence Network has the technological capacity to impose 'total tyranny' in the United States" (The Michigan Daily, October 31, 1975).
Held from November 2-4, 1975, this three-day teach-in (unaffiliated with the University of Michigan) included a series of speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and musical performances all investigating the role of technology in corporate and government "control." Specific topics included: assassinations, corporate manipulation, subversion of the forces of dissent, police repression, surveillance and "dataveillance," and mind control.
Twenty-nine speakers from all different sectors participated, including David DuBois of the Black Panther Party, Robert Katz from the Assassination Information Bureau, Chuck Morgan of the ACLU, Tim Butz a former intelligence agent, author Mark Lane. William Domhoff, Sidney Lens, Carl Oglesby, Maureen O'Rourke, William Kunstler, Willliam Burrroughs, Beverly Moore, William Stirngfellow, Jeremy Rifkin and Eqbal Ahmad.
From the guide to the The bicentennial dilemma: who's in control? videorecordings, 1975, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)
