Wilbur Hugh Ferry papers, 1962-1964.

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Wilbur Hugh Ferry papers, 1962-1964.

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Consists of material that documents the controversy and fallout around Ferry²s speech critical of the FBI. It includes reference materials regarding a former FBI agent, Jack Levine, and his claim that many FBI agents were members of the Communist Party acting as informants. Newspaper clippings about the American reporter, James Worthy, Jr., who was sentenced to three months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States from Cuba without a passport, and J. Edgar Hoover²s speech to the American Legion on 9 October 1962, which makes reference to Ferry²s Seattle speech, are also included. Lastly, the collection contains a memorandum from the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson by a group of economists, labor leaders, publishers and writers headed by Ferry.This memorandum asserts that revolutions are occurring in three fields in the United States: "cybernation" (a term Ferry describes as the combination of computer technology and automated self-regulating machines that will require progressively less human labor), weaponry, and human rights. The committee believed these revolutions would lead to fundamental changes in the approach to jobs and work.

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Western States Democratic Conference 1962 : Seattle, Wash.)

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Ferry, W. H. (Wilbur Hugh), 1910-

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Ferry served as staff director for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions from 1959-1969. The Center, the successor of the Fund for the Republic, was developed to conduct extensive inquiries into the effect institutions had on individual freedom and civil liberties within the United States. On August 7, 1962, Ferry delivered a speech titled "Myths, Cliches and Stereotypes" to the Western States Democratic Conference in Seattle, Washington where he spoke out against the rarely critic...

Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution

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