Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967 Page: 12
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troversy. But once this question was raised, since it was of pri-
mary concern to me and the others involved in professional scholar-
ship, the problem took on a new color, and it became centered pri-
marily on the question of academic freedom for the University.
And the same sides were taken by the same groups in pretty much
the same manner. Then the hearings were held, in effect, to deter-
mine what the Board should do. We attended at least one of these
meetings. And I attended a subsequent meeting from which the other
two members of the original trio were absent. But I was there,
and, by virtue of this circumstance, I had to speak for the three
of us. At this meeting, we were initially informed that this
would be an effort to get a common position established between us
and them and that we could save the University the rigors of con-
troversy and so on in public debate. Well, this of course was
good news to me and I presume to President Rainey and to the mem-
bers of the Board who were more or less inclined in our direction.
However, the rules set down in this regard in the meeting were not
followed and it came to be a sort of trial by attorney only for
one side on the part of Mr....his name I can't recall...the same
person who acted as sort of a prosecution attorney and as a member
of the Board. I believe his name may have been Bullock.
Cochran: What were the kinds of questions he asked you, if you can remember?
Foster: Questions of motivation interspersed with assertions about impro-
priety of motivation; questions of personal character, of political
inclination, about beliefs associated with places of birth and fami-
ly background. I recall for example his discovering that my father
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Cochran, Kendall & Foster, J. Fagg. Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967, book, April 16, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223563/m1/13/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.