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50 Years Later: TInker vs. Des Moines

Author
Dave Davis
Published
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Episode Link
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bay11/Bay11_JohnTinker.mp3

In December of 1965, a handful of students in Iowa wore black arm bands to school to mourn those lost in the early stages of the Vietnam War. They were suspended by administration, and that led to a First Amendment case that made its way to the Supreme Court, and a 1969 decision that supported student expression. John Tinker was one of those Iowa students, and he visits with reporter Sophia Vaughn about the case named after him and his sister, Mary Beth, and how that decision lives on five decades later.

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