40 years ago: KU’s SUA plans for November speakers

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 17, 1974:

Student Union Activities (SUA) was planning the appearances of two speakers at Kansas University in November. James “Matt” Matthews, a former prisoner at Leavenworth Penitentiary and a “Leavenworth Brother” blamed for a July 31, 1973, rebellion at the prison, was to speak at the Kansas Union. Matthews had received institutional charges that he had planned the rebellion and had been held without a hearing in solitary confinement for 14 months until his release in September, according to information from the SUA. The student organization was also planning an unrelated speaking appearance by Michael Bentwich, a member of the American Professor for Peace in the Meddle East. Bentwich, who had received his bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, had taught at several Israeli schools as well as universities in New York and London,.The topic of his KU talk was to be “Zionism and Palestinian Identity: Can They Coexist?”