"I'd Organize Hell" - Saul Alinsky TV interview -1966

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Influential author of the book "Reveille for Radicals", and outspoken political activist Saul Alinsky is interviewed at his home in Carmel, California on a wide range issues such as poverty, injustice, U.S. policy in Vietnam and his own Industrial Areas Foundation. Alinsky's "personal assessment of himself" is full of sardonic humor that is apparently completely missed by the interviewers who take every comment at face value including hyperbolic statements like Los Angeles "needs an enema" and the U.S. Military when it is finished with Vietnam should "bomb Mississippi".

Saul Alinsky died in 1972, and yet from the grave, his ideas still rattle those opposed to his radical methods and economic equalizing ideology over 40 years later. Alinsky's name and viewpoints still incite fear and resonate throughout right wing media attacks on the motivations of current day mainstream Democrat politicians such as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama.

Stonefaced commentary is provided by Prof. John H. Bunzel, of San Francisco State, and segment was produced by Caryl Coleman and directed by Dick Williams for San Francisco CBS TV affiliate KPIX Public Affairs division.

Interview made available via the dedicated media digitization efforts of Alex Cherian and the SF State University Bay Area Television Archives https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv


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This is really interesting. What a character, huh? Never heard of him or his work.

And what an approach. Thanks for sharing this. Glad I found it.

Awesome. Thanks for that.

I love him already :D

Saul Alinsky once boasted; “I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.”

No surprise they shut him down :(

I found this some years ago, during my research. You may appreciate this too? Very brave. Very cool!