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DEVO’s Gerald V. Casale First Interview 1970 BBC

This newly discovered film footage aired only once — in the year 1970, in Europe — and has never seen in the USA. But now it can be told! Jerry Casale explains: I remember participating in this BBC interview in July of 1970. I tried in vain to find out what happened with it in the ensuing years, resigned to thinking it had disappeared off the face of the earth without a trace. Yellow taped-off Kent State University be damned, we were permitted on campus so the BBC could conduct the interview at the location known as ‘The Commons,’ which was the opening scene of the crime on May 4th, 1970. I was selected for this interview because I was a member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and I in the midst of the action that fateful day, 2 months prior to BBC’s film shoot. Two of the 4 students killed that day, Jeffery Miller and Alison Krause, were my friends. It’s almost amusing now to see myself at age 22; a boy trying to be brave and figure things out. What’s not at all amusing is this interview gives evidence that the cultural warfare issues of Tyrannical Authoritarianism vs. Liberty and Democratic Rule of Law — which are front and center today — were in play over 50 yeas ago. Some things never change. In fact, the stakes are much higher now given a world facing existential threats such as the collapse of the environment and the rise of AI. The good fight is eternal. —Gerald V. Casale __________________ Thank you to: Kent State University Librarian/Researcher Jason Prufer for finding and providing this BBC film footage.