Historic FSM photos inside Sproul Hall, Dec 3-4, 1964For the first time, I have posted below photographs I took during the Free Speech Movement Sproul Hall sit in. These include images of Mario Savio, Jack Weinberg, and Joan Baez in the corridors of Sproul. They also show the police charging up the stairs to take control of the window on the second floor, a window that was being used to take food and information in from outside sympathizers. I was arrested, and I spent the next night in the Oakland jail. I was pleased that the police did not destroy the film. (The camera was an old pocket Leica, and it was not obvious how to remove the film.) The pictures were taken without flash, ISO 400 Tri-X film. After I was released, I printed the photos, and gave copies to the FSM lawyers. They instructed me to keep them private, but they never used them. So finally, here they are. Most of them show events that were not captured by any other photographer. A few of them (e.g. the photo of Chancellor Strong and his bullhorn) have appeared elsewhere without proper attribution to me.
I was a graduate student in physics at the time. I believe that I was the only student arrested in the FSM to later become a professor at Berkeley.  
Click on any photo for a larger image. If you wish to use any of these, or if you know the names of any of the people in the photos, please contact me at ramuller@berkeley.edu.