William Marx Mandel was an American broadcast journalist, left-wing political activist, and author, best known as a Soviet affairs analyst.
11 Facts About William Mandel
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In 1960, William Mandel was again subpoenaed, this time by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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William Mandel began his career as a broadcaster in 1958, with a 15-minute-long weekly broadcast on Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.
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William Mandel appears in the documentary film KPFA On the Air.
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Subsequently, William Mandel hosted a weekly show on Free Radio Berkeley.
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William Mandel was the only non-student asked by its founders to sit on the Steering Committee of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California in the early 1960s.
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William Mandel's radio program on KPFA was, during its later decades, titled The Soviet Union: A Closer Look Until the early 1970s, William Mandel was a vocal supporter of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia on this program.
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William Mandel's common refrain during KPFA broadcasts was "the Soviet Union is 100 races living together in harmony".
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In January 1982, Mandel wrote an article in the Stanford Daily supporting the coup of Polish General W Jaruzelski which imposed martial law as an attempt to crush the Solidarity trade union.
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William Mandel died on Thanksgiving Day, November 24,2016 at the age of 99 at his home in Kensington, California.
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The introduction to William Mandel's autobiography, Saying No To Power, was written by the left-wing historian and author Howard Zinn.