Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train

Following his life is like taking a journey through the major struggles of the 20th Century. We spend the rest of the hour with the legendary historian Howard Zinn. In his youth, he was a bombardier in WWII and participated in the Napalm bombing in France. He went on to dedicate his life to opposing wars of all kind. He was an active fighter in Civil Rights Movement and served as an advisor to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. In the late 1960s, he traveled to Vietnam with Father Dan Berrigan during intensive US attacks and negotiated the release of US POWs. In fact, Howard Zinn was a part of most struggles for social justice in this country during his lifetime. He was a professor for seven years at the historically black college for women, Spelman College. Eventually he was fired for insubordination. He is a historian and the author of one of the most popular books on American History, "A People's History of the United States."

But before we go to him, we are going to go to an excerpt of a new film that chronicles his life. It is titled, "You can't be Neutral on a Moving Train" which is the title of his autobiography. The film is produced by First Run Features and is narrated by Zinn's next-door neighbor, actor Matt Damon.

* "You can't be Neutral on a Moving Train," documentary produced by First Run Features.
* Howard Zinn, joins us in our firehouse studio.

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