SOURCES • • • • •   On February 20, 1969, my 22nd birthday, I was the station director of Oberlin College's WOBC, a student-operated ten-watt radio station. We had known for some time that a recruiting visit was scheduled for that day and that there would be demonstrations in response, as there always were.  Led by Bob Steyer, our news department had deployed reporters to various parts of the campus to cover whatever happened. I remained at the studios in Wilder Hall, but I did loan my cassette audio-tape recorder to Marc Krass.  Marc did not describe what was happening or conduct any interviews; he merely recorded what was said.  When he returned to the station, we rewound the 27 minutes of tape and played it on the air almost immediately.  Eventually I reclaimed the recorder and the cassette inside, and that's how I still have the cassette. Here's a photo taken in Peters Hall that day.  I can't tell for sure because there were numerous reporters on hand, but that could be my cassette recorder hanging from one man's shoulder. My other source for this article is the February 21 edition of the Oberlin Review, the student newspaper.  In preparing this article, I dug that newspaper out of my archives and read it for the first time in 32 years. The story that covered the events which I'm describing here was written by Jan Weintraub, who also happened to be on the staff at WOBC.  Other stories, including the lead about the recruiters written by L.G. Blanchard and Steve Suloway, provided valuable background.  I've also used two photos from that issue. Jan and Marc at the WOBC Annual Banquet The main difficulty I had was identifying the voices on the tape.  I was not involved with the anti-war movement and didn't know any of its leaders personally, so the only voice that I can recognize is that of President Carr.  The Weintraub article helped greatly, since it includes some of the quotes from my tape and names the speakers.  I still have difficulty distinguishing Hedges from Pikser, however, and may have misattributed one's remarks to the other. Of course, in making all this into a story, I needed to describe gestures and emotions.  I could only infer them from the sounds on the tape.  Emmer's speech must have ended with two gestures; I've supplied my best guess as to what they were.  When a student accuses Carr, "You insulted us directly," what follows on the tape is a pause and then a soft exhalation; I assume that the sigh is Carr's, then imagine from the circumstances that his look was at first incredulous and then exasperated.  The fact that the recording was temporarily stopped after the sigh suggests that Carr turned and walked away.   To return to the article, click here.