As the Left Erupted in Protest, Ansel Adams Moved Right

As the Left Erupted in Protest, Ansel Adams Moved Right

For decades, Ansel Adams ran in circles of left-wing photographers with a radical eye. But come the 1960s, he was denouncing the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement protests and calling for expulsions. Author David Bacon, center, taping speeches for KPFA during the UC Berkeley student protests, 1964. (FSM Archives) By the fall of 1964, students from the Berkeley campus of the University of California had succeeded in enraging Republican senator Wi…