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Free-speech movement celebrates four decades.
Byline: Martin Snapp
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ Forty years ago Friday, a student named Jack Weinberg was arrested for distributing civil rights leaflets on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley.
Weinberg _ who later coined the maxim "Never trust anyone over 30" _ was bundled into a black-and-white police car. But before it could take him away, more than 2,000 students sat down around it.
They stayed there for 32 hours.
One by one, students climbed onto the car's roof, taking care to remove their shoes first, and voiced their opinions about the university's ban on political activities on campus. It was the opening act of the Free Speech Movement, a moment that transformed a generation.
"It changed my life," said poster artist David Lance Goines, whose work came to define Northern California's graphic image.
"I was studying classics and headed for an academic career. Instead, I was expelled from school and became an apprentice printer, which led to my artistic career, which would never have come to pass had I not been forcibly removed from the arms of my alma mater."
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