Bob Alpern
Playlist: Bob Alpern
John Friedrich (55) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about being arrested at the White House with Dick Gregory and more than 100 others to protest the Reagan Administration's Contra War in Nicaragua. At the DC jail later that...
Bob Alpern talks of locking eyes with a woman with blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes, at a talk he delivered at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship in Santa Rosa, California,That led to McCarolyn joining Bob in Washington, DC, with an...
John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (93) about meeting Father Phil Berrigan, in Baltimore, and forming the Interfaith Peace Mission. They invited a member of the British Parliament to make a major speech against the Vietnam War....
Bob Alpern talks about travels to Crete and other archaeological sites over a period of 10-12 years. Bob talks about the hand games that entranced the children there on the boat ride to Create from Athens, visits with MC Carolyn...
Bob Alpern talks about his lifetime of walking in all the places he’s lived, including Washington, DC, New York City, Annapolis, and now Healdsburg, where he hikes with a group each week, going strong at age 92.
John Friedrich (56) interviews his friend Bob Alpern (93)about early influences in his lie, including seeing unemployed people along Riverside Drive in New York City, living in shanties. Bob shares that FDR's programs like the CCC and the WPA appealed...
John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about his activism against the Vietnam War, including with Catholic priest Phil Berrigan in the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission. He recalls bringing a member of the British Parliament, John Mendelson,...
John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) talks about two trips to Europe to protest the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe, including a three day block of the Mutlangen Air Force Base in southern Germany. There,...
John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) talks about his work over 30 years with the Unitarian Universalist Association and Friends Committee on National Legislation, traveling across the United States conducting advocacy training workshops to “pollinate citizen...
John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) about the time that Bob stood up at a Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra concert, and urged them to not play at the inauguration of President Nixon in 1973, as a protest...