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'''Clark Kerr''' ([[May 17]], [[1911]] – [[December 1]], [[2003]]) was the first [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of the [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[1952]]–[[1958]]) and the 12th President of the [[University of California]] ([[1958]]–[[1967]]).

==Academic background==
(contracted; show full)nated in hundreds of arrested students at a sit-in.  Kerr’s initial decision was to not expel University of California students that participated in sit-ins off campus.  That decision evolved into resistance to expel students who later would protest on campus in a series of escalating events on the Berkeley campus in late 1964.  Kerr was criticized both by students for not agreeing to their demands and by conservative UC Regent [[Edwin Pauley]] and others for responding too leniently to the student unrest.
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[[Image:McCone-Hoover, UC Berkeley 1965.gif|thumb|CIA's McCone, at Pauley's request, asks Hoover to target anti-war protests at UC Berkeley.]]

===CIA and FBI Directors and Ronald Reagan target Kerr for removal===
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*[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/02/MNG833E5DM1.DTL AP obituary]
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1529663 NPR ''All Things Considered'' - Educator Clark Kerr Dies at 92]
*[http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/ account of secret files of the FBI] on Kerr, and Kerr's ouster.
==References==

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*Kerr, Clark, ''The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967''
*Kerr, Clark, ''The Uses of the University''
*Burress, Charles. ''"The Long, Hard Years at Berkley; Second Volume of Clark Kerr’s Memoir Covers Politics and ‘Blunders’”'' San Francisco Chronicle 9 Feb. 2003, Sunday Review Pg. 1.
*''“UC Won’t Expel Sit-in Students”'' Los Angeles Times  6 May 1964, Pg. 8.
*''“The Arrests at Berkley”'' New York Times  5 Dec. 1964, Pg 30.

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  before=&mdash; |
  title=[[University of California, Berkeley#Chancellors|Chancellor]] of [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] |
  years=1952&ndash;1958 |
  after=[[Glenn T. Seaborg]]
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  before=[[Robert Gordon Sproul]] |
  title=[[University of California#List of UC Presidents|President]] of the [[University of California]] |
  years=1958&ndash;1967 |
  after=[[Harry R. Wellman]]
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