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"It seemed I always had to stop people
from taking over buildings!" Schwartz said.
"1 grabbed a megaphone that was
conveniently nearby and started yelling that
we weren't here just to see one man, but to
see the people of North Carolina and any
violence would discredit us and our cause in
their eyes.
"It must have worked, because suddenly
people calmed down and began to play
guitars and banjos and sing peace songs.
"In all modesty, I saved the day."
But even though there was no violence
that day. Schwartz did not look like a hero,
but a radical, to the viewers of the news on
television that evening.
"Well, the first sentence of my speech had
u get the attention of these 10,000 people
watting for some profound statement. So my
first words were 'What is this goddamn war
all about?"
And of his 20-minute speech, that was the
line the T.V. stations chose to air on their
programs.
"1 came back to UNC feeling like I had
done my duty and stopped a riot. You can
imagine my surprise when the Dean called
me to his office and told me people were
calling him complaining that 1 was
corrupting the morals of their children!
Though he didn't apologize and he didn't
get fired, Schwartz did learn something from
the television coverage. "1 think you can do
anything in North Carolina except take the
Lord's name in vain. Here I was, I had
worked for McCarthy and fought for union
workers and black students with no feedback
whatsoever. But with one word, I was a
corrupting radical!
But if another war like Vietnam occurred,
Schwartz says not only would he lead
another march to Raleigh, but he would tell
his two sons not to serve in the Army. "I
would tell them, in good conscience, that I
would rather them go to prison or leave the
country than fight in a conflict politicians
can't explain to the public.
Joel Schwartz's involvement in
studying at Moscow University in 1964,
Schwartz heard a knock on his door one
March night at midnight. At the door stood
a young man.
The man told Schwartz he had been a
Jewish student at Moscow University who
had gotten into trouble with the government.
He had been placed in an insane asylum, but
had escaped. The man now feared recapture
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"We stood in the outer corridor at my
boarding house. The man tore pieces of
" was to give this fir e-and-brimst one
speech on the lawn of the Governor's Man
sion while a delegation of people picked
from the protesters went in the mansion to
give Scott a petition against his action and
the war."
controversy didn't stop with anti-war
protests. Outside of the U.S., he found
himself almost involved with the communist
government in Russia not because of his
politics, but because of his religion and not
of his own desire, but of someone else's.
This involvement was what Schwartz
believes was a KGB attempt to frame him as
a member of the Jewish Resistance in the
Soviet Union.
While a graduate exchange student
paper from the edge of a newspaper lying on
a table and wrote his story on them in
Russian. After I read aloud what he wrote,
the man tore the slips up and flushed them
down the toilet.
The man wanted Schwartz to take his
story to the Western media so there would be
wide-spread publicity if he was arrested.
"The situation with Jews in Russia is a
tightrope," Schwartz said. "I told the young
man I was sorry, but I couldn't help him."
The Exchange Student Committee which
had given Schwartz a grant to study in
Russia had warned him to avoid Russian
Jews. But the day the man appeared at his
door, Schwartz had accepted an invitation
from the Israeli Embassy, to observe
Passover there.
"The man could have been telling the
truth, but I had no way of Knowing. Besides,
my wife and I thought it suspicious that he
would come to me after I had received a
private invitation to observe a Jewish
holiday. We wondered how he found out we
were Jewish."
The man returned twice more, the last
time the night Schwartz was to attend the
Passover service. "I was sitting at the table
when the man suddenly appeared at our
door. My wife jumped up and pushed him
out of the room, locking the door. We never
saw him again."
Schwartz said he believes this was a KGB
agent trying to trap him as a conspirator
because of the suspicious, persistent nature
of his visits, along with the fact Schwartz had
been a leader in Jewish Youth Groups.
Schwartz has won two Tanner Awards for
Distinguished Teaching in six years, once in
1968 and again in 1974, but he doesn't feel
the same peace of mind he got 21 years ago
on an Israeli farm.
"I never can see evidence of what I do in
teaching. All I am sure of is that I stand up
and talk for a number of minutes. It's a job
with a lot of built-in frustrations."
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