Free Speech Defender Dies in Traffic Accident
From Times Wire Reports
A UC Berkeley professor who defended Free Speech Movement protesters in the 1960s died in a campus traffic accident.
History professor Reginald Zelnik, 68, died Monday after being struck by a delivery truck as he walked across campus, school officials said.
Zelnik joined the faculty in 1964 and was a respected historian and teacher of Russian and Soviet history. During the Free Speech Movement that year, he came to the defense of students protesting a ban on political campaigning on campus.
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