anti-nuclear power protest, 1970s

Wichita State students protest against the construction of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. (file photo)


More than 100 years supporting free speech

Throughout our 125-year existence, Wichita State University has stood in strong support of freedom of expression in speech, thought and deed.

The Forum Board Lecture Series, originally established in 1937 as the Student Forum and discontinued in 2002, brought in over that time more than 500 nationally and internally known personalities and thought leaders, including major historical figures from all points on the political and academic spectrum. That legacy has been revived with the establishment of the Craig W. Barton Speaker Series, which debuts in April 2022.

Notable Lecture Series events
Name Academic
Year
Lecture Date Lecture Series
Marquis Childs 1937 2/11/1937 Student Forum
Dr. William T. Foster 1938 11/10/1937 Student Forum
Dr. Raymond Leslie Buell 1938 11/17/1937 Student Forum
Dr. Edward C. Carter 1938 12/1/1937 Student Forum
Elizabeth P. MacCullum 1938 1/12/1938 Student Forum
Dr. Rupert P. Vance 1938 1/26/1938 Student Forum
Maxwell Stewart 1938 2/9/1938 Student Forum
Dr. David Bryn-Jones 1938 2/23/1938 Student Forum
Dr. No Yong Park 1938 3/9/1938 Student Forum
Arthur Kallet 1939 11/16/1938 Student Forum
Christopher Mayhew 1939 12/2/1938 Student Forum
Philip R. Noakes 1939 12/2/1938 Student Forum
Carl Sandburg 1939 1/18/1939 Student Forum
Ralph Hinman 1939 2/2/1939 Student Forum
Paul Popenoe 1939 2/23/1939 Student Forum
Maurice Hindus 1939 3/23/1939 Student Forum
Maynard Krueger 1939 4/20/1939 Student Forum
Pierre Van Paassen 1940 11/1/1939 Student Forum
Vincent Sheean 1940 11/23/1939 Student Forum
George J. Bean 1940 12/4/1939 Student Forum
Victor Hugh Parkinson 1940 12/4/1939 Student Forum
H.R. Knickerbocker 1940 1/8/1940 Student Forum
Dr. George Earle Raiguel 1940 3/7/1940 Student Forum
Dr. Howard Haggard 1940 3/20/1940 Student Forum
Sigmund Spaeth 1940 4/4/1940 Student Forum
Thomas Hart Benton 1940 5/2/1940 Student Forum
Arnold Jones 1941 10/9/1940 Student Forum
Maynard Krueger 1941 10/9/1940 Student Forum
Orville McPherson 1941 10/9/1940 Student Forum
Linton Wells 1941 11/13/1940 Student Forum
Gordon B. Enders 1941 12/2/1940 Student Forum
Will Durant 1941 2/10/1941 Student Forum
Herbert Agar 1941 3/26/1941 Student Forum
Louis Untermeyer 1941 4/7/1941 Student Forum
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV 1942 10/22/1941 Student Forum
Archduke Otto 1942 11/6/1941 Student Forum
Dr. Albert E. Wiggam 1942 12/4/1941 Student Forum
Kent Sagendorph 1942 2/5/1942 Student Forum
Lew Sarrett 1942 3/16/1942 Student Forum
Dr. Robert A. Millikan 1942 4/22/1942 Student Forum
Dr. No Yong Park 1943 10/26/1942 Student Forum
Maj. Alexander P. De Seversky 1943 11/25/1942 Student Forum
Maynard Krueger 1943 12/10/1942 Student Forum
Quincy Wright 1943 12/10/1942 Student Forum
Henry Bloch 1943 12/10/1942 Student Forum
Franklin P. Adams 1943 4/4/1943 Student Forum
Louis Fischer 1943 4/15/1943 Student Forum
Lewis Browne 1944 10/27/1943 Student Forum
Sinclair Lewis 1944 10/27/1943 Student Forum
Leland Stowe 1944 11/22/1943 Student Forum
George Weller 1944 2/25/1944 Student Forum
Carleton Smith 1944 3/22/1944 Student Forum
Jan Struther 1945 10/12/1944 Student Forum
Eliot Janeway 1945 12/13/1944 Student Forum
Robert Boothby 1945 2/20/1945 Student Forum
Edmund Stevens 1945 3/8/1945 Student Forum
Dr. Hubert Herring 1945 4/23/1945 Student Forum
Dr. Homer P. Rainey 1946 10/16/1945 Student Forum
Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1946 11/19/1945 Student Forum
Sidney Montague 1946 1/7/1946 Student Forum
Harrison Forman 1946 2/14/1946 Student Forum
André Maurois 1946 3/26/1946 Student Forum
George Moorad 1947 12/11/1946 Student Forum
Norman Cousins 1947 1/8/1947 Student Forum
Ellis Arnall 1947 2/5/1947 Student Forum
Carl Van Doren 1947 2/20/1947 Student Forum
John Mason Brown 1947 10/20/1948 Student Forum
Robert St. John 1948 10/6/1947 Student Forum
T.V. Smith 1948 11/19/1947 Student Forum
Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell 1948 2/3/1948 Student Forum
Stuart Chase 1948 2/26/1948 Student Forum
B. Preston Schoyer 1948 4/21/1948  
John Mason Brown 1949 10/20/1948 Student Forum
Robert Magidoff 1949 11/10/1948 Student Forum
Raymond Moley 1949 1/12/1949 Student Forum
Archibald MacLeish 1949 2/3/1949 Student Forum
Hamlet: Movie with Laurence Olivier 1949 2/21/1949  
Clifton Fadiman 1949 3/29/1949 Student Forum
Joseph Thanner 1949 5/19/1949  
Gen. Leslie R. Groves 1950 10/26/1949 Student Forum
Dr. C.J. Hambro 1950 11/16/1949 Student Forum
Dr. John Ise 1950 12/7/1949 Student Forum
Dr. Bharatan Kumarappa 1950 1/18/1950 Student Forum
Homer P. Rainey 1950 3/15/1950 Student Forum
Dwight Griswold 1950 4/12/1950 Student Forum
Ogden Nash 1950 5/2/1950 Student Forum
Adolphe Menjou 1951 10/25/1950 Student Forum
Henry Hazlitt 1951 11/16/1950 Student Forum
Sen. Estes Kefauver 1951 11/29/1950 Student Forum
Bill Costello 1951 2/13/1951 Student Forum
Richard Llewellyn 1951 3/21/1951 Student Forum
Dr. Kurt Von Schushnigg 1951 4/2/1951  
Lee Mortimer 1952 10/24/1951 Student Forum
Helen Gahagan Douglas 1952 11/28/1951 Student Forum
Bennett Cerf 1952 1/29/1952 Student Forum
Leland Stowe 1952 3/12/1952 Student Forum
Nicholas Nyaradi 1953 5/15/1952  
Dr. You Chan Yang 1953 10/21/1952 Student Forum
Dorothy Thompson 1953 11/21/1952 Student Forum
Sen. Wayne Morse 1953 12/17/1952 Student Forum
Charles Laughton 1953 4/2/1953 Student Forum
Maurice Schumann 1954 10/14/1953 Student Forum
Don Cossack Chorus 1954 10/27/1953 Student Forum
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 1954 11/10/1953 Student Forum
Neal McNeill 1954 2/8/1954 Student Forum
Agnes Moorehead 1954 2/25/1954 Student Forum
Leon Pearson 1954 3/10/1954 Student Forum
Trygve Lie 1955 10/26/1954 Student Forum
Dr. Willy Ley 1955 12/7/1954 Student Forum
Dr. Karl Gruber 1955 2/16/1955 Student Forum
William L. Shirer 1955 3/9/1955 Student Forum
Arthur Treacher 1955 4/13/1955 Student Forum
Bill Costello 1956   Student Forum
Norman Cousins 1956   Student Forum
Henry Hull 1956   Student Forum
Dr. Frolick Rainey 1956   Student Forum
Gen. Carlos Romulo 1956   Student Forum
Herbert Morrison 1957 Nov. 1956 Student Forum
Rep. Walter Judd 1957   Student Forum
Ogden Nash 1957   Student Forum
Drew Pearson 1957   Student Forum
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt 1957   Student Forum
John Mason Brown 1958 3/23/1958 Student Forum
Justice William O. Douglas 1958 5/14/1958 Student Forum
Chet Huntley 1958   Student Forum
William Lawrence 1958   Student Forum
Vincent Price 1958   Student Forum
Albert Schlesinger 1959 11/14/1958 Student Forum
Dr. Wernher Von Braun 1959 4/17/1959 Student Forum
Clement Attlee 1959   Student Forum
Chet Huntley 1959   Student Forum
Emlyn Williams 1959   Student Forum
Earl Schaefer 1960 3/15/1959 Student Forum
Bennett Cerf 1960   Student Forum
Dr. Arthur Larson 1960   Student Forum
Irving R. Levine 1960   Student Forum
Vance Packard 1960   Student Forum
Gen. A.C. Wedemeyer 1960   Student Forum
Musa Amalemba 1961   Student Forum
Bergen Evans 1961   Student Forum
Maj. John B. Medaris 1961   Student Forum
Eric Sevareid 1961   Student Forum
John Ciardi 1962   Student Forum
Agnes De Mille 1962   Student Forum
Katherine Ann Porter 1962   Student Forum
Rep. Henry Reuss 1962   Student Forum
Frederick L. Schuman 1962   Student Forum
Norman Dello Joio 1963 3/18/1963 Student Forum
Dr. Colin Turnbull 1963 3/21/1963 Student Forum
John D. Rockefeller IV 1963 5/6/1963 Student Forum
Charles A. Siepmann 1963 5/17/1963 Student Forum
Dr. Francis A. Richards 1963   Student Forum
Dr. S.Y. Tyree 1963   Student Forum
Karl Shapiro 1964   Student Forum
Alova Wehr 1964   Student Forum
Brand Blanshard 1965 3/12/1965 Student Forum
Kurt Baier 1965 5/21/1965 Student Forum
R.V. Cassill 1965   Student Forum
Langston Hughes 1965   Student Forum
Ashley Montague 1965   Student Forum
Michael Duffy 1966 10/4/1965 Student Forum
Toronto Teach-In 1966 10/9/1965 Student Forum
Theodore Sorensen 1966 10/13/1965 Student Forum
Dr. Robert Presthus 1966 10/22/1965 Student Forum
Inigo Bing 1966 3/3/1966 Student Forum
Robert Marhall-Andrews 1966 3/3/1966 Student Forum
Dr. Ralph Nichols 1966 3/21/1966 Student Forum
Walter Judd 1967 3/22/1967 Student Forum
Moshe Shamir 1967 4/13/1967 Student Forum
Jacque Weil 1967 4/26/1967 Student Forum
Kah-kyung Cho 1967 5/10/1967 Student Forum
Sylvester Broderick 1967 5/17/1967 Student Forum
Sen. Mark Hatfield 1968 9/18/1967 Forum Board
Dick Gregory 1968 10/2/1967 Forum Board
Dr. Dorothy Lee 1968 10/16/1967 Forum Board
Paul Shyre 1968 11/9/1967 Forum Board
Prof. William E. Miller 1968 11/16/1967 Forum Board
Prof. W.H. Goetzman 1968 12/1/1967 Forum Board
Dr. Albert Burke 1968 12/7/1967 Forum Board
Harrison Salisbury 1968 3/15/1968 Forum Board
Bill Sands 1968 5/6/1968 Forum Board
Don Levy 1968 5/14/1968 Forum Board
George Wallace 1968 Fall 1967 Forum Board
David Schoenbrun 1969 9/9/1968 Forum Board
Esther Peterson 1969 10/3/1968 Forum Board
Gordon D. Hall 1969 10/14/1968 Forum Board
Frank Mankiewicz 1969 3/18/1969 Forum Board
Julian Bond 1969 4/15/1969 Forum Board
Scott Carpenter 1969 5/8/1969 Forum Board
Sen. Edmund Muskie 1970 9/15/1969 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Francis Beckett 1970 11/7/1969 Forum Board
Alastair Finlayson 1970 11/7/1969 Forum Board
Mino Badner 1970 11/13/1969 Forum Board Black Arts Series
Sen. Barry Goldwater 1970 11/17/1969 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Sen George McGovern 1970 2/9/1970 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Wendell Brooks 1970 2/16/1970 Forum Board Black Arts Series
Robert Goldwater 1970 3/12/1970 Forum Board Black Arts Series
Sen. Fred Harris 1970 3/19/1970 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
James Brewer 1970 4/1/1970 Forum Board Black Arts Series Symposium
Odetta Holmes 1970 4/1/1970 Forum Board Black Arts Series Symposium
Raymond Saunders 1970 4/1/1970 Forum Board Black Arts Series Symposium
Rep. Gerald Ford 1970 5/7/1970 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Robert Goralski 1970 7/7/1970 Forum Board
Ramsey Clark 1971 9/18/1970 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Ralph Nader 1971 10/16/1970 Forum Board
Stewart Udall 1971 11/12/1970 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Carl Stokes 1971 3/4/1971 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
John Tower 1971 4/15/1971 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower 1971 4/20/1971 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Rep. Bella Abzug 1971 7/12/1971 Distinguished Speaker Series Summer Lecture
Gloria Steinem 1972 9/16/1971 Forum Board
Robert Finch 1972 10/13/1971 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
John Gardner 1972 12/2/1971 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Rep. Pete McCloskey 1972 2/7/1972 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
John Volpe 1972 3/22/1972 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Ernest Dunbar 1972 4/21/1972 Forum Board
Vernon Bellecourt 1972    
Rep. Shirley Chisholm 1972   Summer Lecture
Elizabeth S. Donno 1972    
Jose Guttierrez 1972    
Richard Hatcher 1973 9/29/1972 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Vine Deloria 1973 11/12/1972 Forum Board
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold 1973 1/30/1973 Forum Board
Sen. Thomas Eagleton 1973 2/13/1973 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Amb. John Kenneth Galbraith 1973 4/19/1973 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Raymond Bisplinghoff 1973   Forum Board
Sen. Joseph Montoya 1973   Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Daniel Schorr 1974 10/1/1973 Forum Board
Maya Angelou 1974 11/2/1973 Forum Board
Sen. Sam Ervin 1974 1/28/1974 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Justice Arthur Goldberg 1974 2/19/1974 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
John King Fairbank 1974 3/8/1974 Forum Board
Caroline Bird 1974   Forum Board
Blackbear Bosin 1974   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Sen. Edward Brooke 1974   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Joyce Cavarozzi 1974   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Norman Corwin 1974   Forum Board
Dr. Margaret Lindsey 1974   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Billy Mills 1974   Forum Board
Richard Scammon 1974   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
George Gallup 1975 9/6/1974 Forum Board
Sen. Robert Dole 1975 10/2/1974 Forum Board
Sen. Lowell Weicker 1975 10/2/1974 Forum Board
John Dean 1975 3/7/1975 Forum Board
Ada Deer 1975 4/4/1975 Forum Board
Gene Rodenberry 1975 4/7/1975 Forum Board
Don Lee 1975 4/11/1975 Forum Board
Edith Green 1975 4/15/1975 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Norman Mailer 1975 4/21/1975 Forum Board
R. Buckminster Fuller 1975 4/29/1975 Forum Board
Carl Albert 1975 5/2/1975 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Edwin Ulrich 1975 5/5/1975 Forum Board
Daniel Bell 1975   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Rollo May 1975   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Ermond Norrist 1975   Forum Board
Martha Peterson 1975    
Gerald Pomper 1975    
William Rusher 1975    
Dixy Lee Ray 1976 9/4/1975 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Kate Millett 1976 9/26/1975  
Abba Eban 1976 10/16/1975 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Fergus Clydesdale 1976 11/24/1975 Forum Board
Edith Green 1976 12/9/1975 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Joe Black 1976 1/29/1976 Forum Board
Nikki Giovanni 1976 3/25/1976 Forum Board
Dick Gregory 1976 4/8/1976 Forum Board
Dr. Duane T. Gish 1976 4/22/1976 Forum Board
William Colby 1976 6/16/1976 Forum Board
Pauline Frederick 1976 7/19/1976 Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Dr. Stephen Kemp Briley 1976   Forum Board
Willard Gaylin 1976   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Richard Gibb 1976    
Russell Means 1976    
James Nixon 1976    
Rep. Shirley Chisholm 1977 6/10/1976 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Herbert Goldberg 1977 6/12/1976 Forum Board
Jonathan Kozol 1977 10/29/1976 Forum Board
Vincent Bugliosi 1977 1/21/1977 Forum Board
Donald Bogle 1977 2/4/1977 Forum Board
Brit Hume 1977 3/31/1977 Forum Board
Owen K. Garriott 1977 4/22/1977 Forum Board
Geraldo Rivera 1977 4/29/1977 Forum Board
Jesse Lair 1977 6/22/1977 Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Carl Bode 1977   Forum Board
Lynn Caine 1977   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Philip Dacey 1977    
Ann Smith 1977    
Leslie Ullman 1977    
David Frost 1978 10/5/1977 Forum Board
Jane Fonda 1978 12/8/1977 Forum Board
Gordon Parks 1978 2/2/1978 Forum Board
Sen. William Proxmire 1978 2/15/1978 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Rep. John Conyers 1978 2/20/1978 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Warren Farrell 1978 4/21/1978 Forum Board
Sen. James Pearson 1978 5/1/1978 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 1978   Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Barbara Brown 1978   Summer Lecture, Distinguished Speaker Series
Kenneth Cooper 1978   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Rep. William David Ford 1978   Forum Board
Larry Shumaker 1978    
Chhang Song 1978    
Dr. Benjamin Spock 1978   Forum Board
Jane Trahey 1978   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Steve Garvey 1979 11/28/1978 Forum Board
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. 1979 1/25/1979 Forum Board
Antonia Handler Chayes 1979 2/12/1979 Forum Board
Benjamin Hooks 1979 2/26/1979 Forum Board
Yitzhak Rabin 1979 3/1/1979 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Les Whitten 1979 4/11/1979 Forum Board
Dr. Helen Caldicott 1979 4/21/1979 Forum Board
John Bergamo 1979    
Wallace Black Elk 1979    
Anne Davis 1979   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Mayor Maynard Jackson 1979   Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Gentry Lee 1979    
Mark Loizeaux 1979    
Susan Slaughter 1979    
Billy Taylor 1979    
Sen. Birch Bayh 1980 9/10/1979 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Gyorgy Kepes 1980 10/11/1979 Forum Board
Betty Williams 1980 10/19/1979 Forum Board
Frank Capra 1980 10/25/1979 Forum Board
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum 1980 11/26/1979 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Alger Hiss 1980 12/5/1979 Forum Board
Maggie (Margaret) Kuhn 1980 1/17/1980 Forum Board
William Rusher 1980 1/21/1980 Forum Board
Dr. Fereydoon Hoveyda 1980 1/30/1980 Forum Board
Amiri Baraka 1980 2/4/1980 Forum Board
Dr. Gerald K. O'Neill 1980 3/1/1980 Forum Board
Ronald Reagan 1980 3/23/1980 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy 1980 3/29/1980 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dr. Frances (Sissy) Farenthold 1980 4/11/1980 Forum Board
Dr. Ben Finney 1980 5/1/1980 Forum Board
Ben Fernandez 1980 5/5/1980 Forum Board
Meridel Le Sueur 1980 5/8/1980 Forum Board
Joyce Brothers 1980   Forum Board
Dr. John R. Coleman 1980   Forum Board
Michael Harrington 1980   Forum Board
Pierre Mornell 1980   Forum Board
Dr. Irving K. Zola 1980
Sen. Strom Thurman 1981 9/2/1980 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dr. Robert Heilbroner 1981 9/8/1980 Forum Board
David Frye 1981 9/23/1980 Forum Board
Nikki Giovanni 1981 10/24/1980 Forum Board
Ken Wooden 1981 11/21/1980 Forum Board
Michael Cooke 1981 1/26/1981 Forum Board
Amb. Donald McHenry 1981 2/23/1981 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dick Gregory 1981 4/11/1981 Forum Board
Jean-Michel Cousteau 1981 4/15/1981 Forum Board
Harlan Cleveland 1981   Forum Board
Michael Colgrass 1981   Forum Board
Roger Ebert 1981   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Ellen Goodman 1981   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Frank Mankiewicz 1981   Forum Board
Tom Parks 1981   Forum Board
Max Cleland 1982 9/17/1981 Forum Board
George Sheehan 1982 10/2/1981 Forum Board
Shannon Lucid 1982 10/23/1981 Forum Board
Ralph Nader 1982 11/18/1981 Forum Board
Jack Anderson 1982 12/7/1981 Forum Board
Maya Angelou 1982 2/7/1982 Forum Board
Judith Briles 1982   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Elinor Lenz 1982   Summer Lecture Distinguished Speaker Series
Kelly Monteith 1982    
Mark Russell 1982    
Malcolm Toon 1982   Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Rep. Parren J. Mitchell 1983 1/21/1983 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
George Plimpton 1983 1/25/1983 Forum Board
Rep. Toby Moffett 1983 2/21/1983 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dr. Alvin Poussaint 1983 2/25/1983 Forum Board
Gordon Parks 1983 Nov. 1982 Forum Board
Tom Sullivan 1983    
David Toma 1984 9/15/1983 Forum Board
Wolf Blitzer 1984 10/3/1983 Forum Board
Mortimer Adler 1984 10/17/1983 Forum Board
Billy Mills 1984 1/27/1984 Forum Board
Joshua Logan 1984 2/22/1984 Forum Board
Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum 1984 3/5/1984 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dr. Micere Mugo 1984 3/8/1984 Forum Board
Bella Abzug 1984 3/21/1984 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Lerone Bennett 1984 4/17/1984 Forum Board
Amb. Jean Gerard 1984 4/19/1984 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Linus Pauling 1984 4/23/1984 Forum Board
Judith Martin 1984 4/25/1984 Forum Board
Carlos Fuentes 1984 5/1/1984 Forum Board
Eric Sevareid 1984 6/5/1984 Forum Board
John Anderson 1984 Jan. 1984 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Richard Reeves 1985 9/11/1984 Forum Board
David Gergen 1985 9/24/1984 Forum Board
Gloria Steinem 1985 10/16/1984 Forum Board
Kurt Vonnegut 1985 10/26/1984 Forum Board
Mary Berry 1985 11/14/1984 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Patricia Schroeder 1985 12/3/1984 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Ossie Davis 1985 1/28/1985 Forum Board
Ruby Dee 1985 1/28/1985 Forum Board
Donald Woods 1985 2/6/1985 Forum Board
Arkady Shevchenko 1985 4/3/1985 Forum Board
Joseph Heller 1986 9/25/1985 Forum Board
Dr. Christian Barnard 1986 10/21/1985 Forum Board
Richard Leakey 1986 10/30/1985 Forum Board
Stella Nowicki 1986 10/30/1985 Forum Board
G. Gordon Liddy 1986 11/19/1985 Forum Board
Bob Edwards 1986 1/29/1986 Forum Board
Gov. John Carlin 1986 2/20/1986 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Randall Robinson 1986 2/24/1986 Forum Board
Nikki Giovanni 1986 3/3/1986 Forum Board
Paul Conrad 1986 3/24/1986 Forum Board
Paul & Anne Ehrlich 1986 4/11/1986 Forum Board
Mervyn Silverman 1986 5/6/1986 Forum Board
William F. Buckley 1986 12/4/1986 Forum Board
Facet Ensemble 1986   Forum Board
Jeff Greenfield 1987 9/22/1986 Forum Board
Dith Pran 1987 10/8/1986 Forum Board
Henry Cisneros 1987 11/7/1986 Forum Board
John Van Doren 1987 11/14/1986 Forum Board
Alain Robbe-Grillet 1987 11/15/1986 Forum Board
Frances Moore Lappe 1987 11/20/1986 Forum Board
Anne Burford 1987 1/26/1987 Forum Board
The Rev. Leon Sullivan 1987 2/9/1987 Forum Board
Susan Brownmiller 1987 3/2/1987 Forum Board
Linda Ellerbee 1987 4/20/1987 Forum Board
Louis L'Amour 1987 6/17/1987 Forum Board
Dean Hargrove 1987   Forum Board
Bienvenido Santos 1987   Forum Board
David Eisenhower 1988 9/28/1987 Forum Board
Clay Jenkinson 1988 10/28/1987 Forum Board
Mel Kahn 1988 10/28/1987 Forum Board
Dick Cavett 1988 11/2/1987 Forum Board
Gov. Mike Hayden 1988 1/25/1988 Forum Board
Julian Bond 1988 2/16/1988 Forum Board
Sonia Johnson 1988 3/7/1988 Forum Board
Jane Goodall 1988 4/21/1988 Forum Board
Geraldine Ferraro 1988 6/27/1988 Forum Board
Dan Glickman 1989 9/16/1988 Forum Board
Thompson 1989 9/16/1988 Forum Board
Jerry Bittle 1989 10/14/1988 Forum Board
Arthur Schlesinger 1989 11/18/1988 Forum Board
Alex Haley 1989 2/1/1989 Forum Board
Betty Friedan 1989 3/2/1989 Forum Board
Cokie Roberts 1989 3/24/1989 Forum Board
Samuel Lewis 1989 5/1/1989 Forum Board
Edwin Newman 1989 6/13/1989 Forum Board
George McGovern 1990 9/19/1989 Forum Board
Larry McMurtry 1990 10/6/1989 Forum Board
Bob Blackwill 1990 10/12/1989 Forum Board
Hasan Abdel Rahman 1990 11/6/1989 Forum Board
Arthur Ashe 1990 2/20/1990 Forum Board
Susan Sontag 1990 3/26/1990 Forum Board
Beverly Sills 1990 6/12/1990 Forum Board
Daniel Schorr 1991 9/25/1990 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Louis Sturns 1991 10/12/1990 Forum Board
Stephen Jay Gould 1991 10/23/1990 Forum Board
Will Keim 1991 11/12/1990 Forum Board
Andrew Young 1991 1/25/1991 Forum Board
Shelby Steele 1991 2/27/1991 Forum Board
Eugenie Clark 1991 3/26/1991 Forum Board
Jaime Escalante 1991 6/24/1991 Summer Lecture
Omali Yeshitela 1991   Forum Board
Kati Perry Haycock 1992 9/20/1991 Forum Board
Amb. Carlos Fuentes 1992 10/1/1991 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Thomas Farrar 1992 10/17/1991 Forum Board
Jack Matlock 1992 11/5/1991 Forum Board
Melor Sturua 1992 11/8/1991 Forum Board
Yolanda King 1992 2/5/1992 Forum Board
Robin Wright 1992 3/16/1992 Forum Board
Charles V. Willie 1992 4/10/1992 Forum Board
Baxter Black 1992 6/18/1992 Summer Lecture
William Proxmire 1992   Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Robert MacNeil 1993 10/25/1992 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Robert Kennedy Jr. 1993 11/9/1992 Forum Board
Lu Li 1993 1/29/1993 Forum Board
Sarah Brady 1993 3/9/1993 Forum Board Distinguished Speaker Series
Duke Fergerson 1994 2/3/1993 Forum Board
James Woolsey 1994 2/7/1994 Forum Board
Robert T. Bakker 1994 4/19/1993 Forum Board
Harvey Gantt 1994 9/17/1993 Forum Board
Marlin Fitzwater 1994 11/9/1993 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Helen Thomas 1994 12/7/1993 Forum Board
Sharon Lund 1994    
Le Ly Hayslip 1995 9/8/1994 Forum Board
Jerry Parr 1995 10/18/1994 Forum Board
Andrei Codrescu 1995 11/3/1994 Forum Board
Nathan McCall 1995 2/7/1995 Forum Board
Taber MacCallum 1995 3/30/1995 Forum Board
Jane Poynter 1995 3/30/1995 Forum Board
Michael York 1995 4/27/1995 Forum Board
Ernest Boyer 1996 8/27/1995 Forum Board
Rawn Spearman 1996 9/23/1995 Forum Board
Craig Miner 1996 10/10/1995 Forum Board
Charles Murray 1996 11/30/1995 Forum Board
Alvin Poussaint 1996 11/30/1995 Forum Board
Joycelyn Elders 1996 2/13/1996 Forum Board
Henry Louis Gates 1996 3/10/1996 Forum Board
Barry Williams 1996 4/13/1996 Forum Board
Dan Glickman 1997 4/18/1996 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997 10/15/1996 Forum Board
Spike Lee 1997 2/6/1997 Forum Board
Robert Ressler 1997 3/11/1997 Forum Board
Jeremy Rifkin 1998 10/17/1997 Forum Board
Michael Eric Dyson 1998 10/26/1997 Forum Board
Jean Kilbourne 1998 11/10/1997 Forum Board
Jack Valenti 1998 2/9/1998 Forum Board
Frank Deford 1998 3/2/1998 Forum Board
Warren Faidley 1998 4/8/1998 Forum Board
Jean-Michel Cousteau 1999 9/22/1998 Forum Board
LouAnne Johnson 1999 10/20/1998 Forum Board
Julie Nixon Eisenhower 1999 3/30/1999 Forum Board Eisenhower Lecture
Dee Dee Myers 2000 10/14/1999 Forum Board
Karla Burns 2000 1/24/2000 Forum Board
Capitol Steps 2001 11/8/2000 Forum Board
Soledad O'Brien 2001 4/3/2001 Forum Board
Larry McMurtry 2002 10/24/2001 Forum Board
Bob Edwards 2002 5/7/2002 Forum Board
Robert Gates 2022 4/27/2022 Barton Speaker Series
Cody Keenan 2023 2/30/2023 Barton Speaker Series

Freedom of Expression events gallery

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  • U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, 2019
  • Director Spike Lee, 1991
  • Dr. Alexander White, 2014
  • Laverne Cox, 2015
  • Mark Parkinson, 2011
  • Boris Yeltsin, 1993
  • Robert Gates, 2023