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The Assassinations session (3 original tapes) included four speakers:

1. Lee, Marty -- "Introduction outlining the Teach-In's format." (part 1)
2. Freed, Donald -- The Assassination of Robert Kennedy (part 1) ("Talks about how the assassinations will spark an awakening")
3. Katz, Robert -- Assassination Information Bureau --The Assassination of Martin Luther King (part 1-2) ("Discusses how Martin Luther King's assassination is part of a larger effort to suppress dissent. He reconstructs the killing, pointing out inconsistencies and contradictions.")
4. Lane, Mark -- The Assassination of President Kennedy (part 2-3) ("Lane does an outstanding job in attacking the myths proposed by the Warren Commission in the JFK murder. Covers much of the material in his book Rush to Judgment and more.")

The Corporate Manipulation session consisted of three speakers:

1. Domhoff, William -- The Ruling Class (part 1)
2. Lens, Sidney -- Labor's Role in Covert War (parts 1 and 2)
3. Barnet, Richard -- Multinational Corporations (part 2I)

The Subversion of the Forces of Dissent panel (3 original tapes) consisted of seven speakers:

1. Oglesby, Carl, AIB -- (moderator) (part 1) ("An excellent introduction to this section. Discusses among other things, how the Allies set up ex-Nazis as the new German post-war intelligence community. Also the connections between the federal govt. and organized crime.")
2. Stapleton, Syd -- The FBI's Cointelpro and the CIA's Chaos (part 1) ("Former SWPer discusses first-hand how the govt. infiltrated legitimate protest movements. COINTELPRO and Wounded Knee provide the examples of a concerted effort to breakup dissent.")
3. Freed, Donald -- Counter-terrorism and the Agent Provocateur (parts 1-2) ("Examples and methods used to kill protest. The connections between Watergate and Patty Hearst. He provides theories on the true nature of the SLA. Ties in the prison system, the CIA and other international criminals.")
4. Borman, Nancy, Majority Report -- Subversion of the Women's movement (part 2) ("Documents efforts by the govt. to buy off and subvert the women's movement. Operation Chaos, Mary Jo Cook, Susan Saks and other topics never mentioned in the national media.")
5. O'Rourke, Maurine, UM Gay Advocate -- Repression of Gay People (part 2) ("The harassment and oppression of radical lesbians. Kathy Power and Susan Saks, Jill Rayman. A passionate, articulate presentation.")
6. [last name not given], Stella -- Repression of Gay People (part 2) ("Attacks homophobia in the New Left and the Teach-In. Relates it to similar experiences with straight academic conferences.")
7. DuBois, David, Black Panther -- Conspiracy Against the Black Liberation Movement (part 3) ("DuBois relates his experiences as a Black American living in Black Africa. Relates African liberation struggles to the idea of a world socialist revolution. King, Malcolm X, the Panthers, and busing are tied in to an overview of racism and imperialism.")

The session on Police Repression (3 original tapes) seven speakers:

1. Kunstler, William -- (moderator) (part 1) ("A short intro. by Kunstler talks about Attica and community control and the repression at Wounded Knee.")
2. Butz, Tim -- The Militarization of Police (part1) ("Former intelligence agent thoroughly discusses the intelligence cycle. SLA and SWAT teams. Use of LEAA federal money to bring Viet Nam technology and repression home.")
3. Frappier, Jon -- New Police Technology (part 1-2) ("Frappier talks about technology as a tool of repression. LEAA funded police tools. Latin America and Viet Nam. The war comes home.")
4. People at the Wheel -- (part 2) ("Music provided by members of the Revolutionary Student Brigade.")
5. Kunstler, William -- (part 2) ("Introduction that ties in Viet Nam and the military actions at Wounded Knee.")
6. Dixon, Regina Brave -- The Military at Wounded Knee (parts 2-3) ("A first hand account of the US Military actions at Wounded Knee. A fine and complete account.")
7. DuBois, David -- Police Repression in Oakland County (part 3) ("A chronological history of the Black Panther Party focusing on Oakland. An excellent overview.")

The panel titled Surveillance & Dataveillance consisted of three speakers:

1. Lapity, Jon -- (part 1)
2. Corsetti, George -- (part 1) ("He documents specifics of police surveillance and infiltration of various Mich. area groups. The maintaining of files, informers and dirty tricks.")
3. Morgan, Chuck, ACLU -- Electronic Surveillance Systems and Computer Data (p 2) ("A speech everyone should hear. He outlines the use of satellites, computers, voiceprints, wire-tapping. The CIA, Dept. of Defense, the NSA. An Orwellian nightmare. Very good question and answer period follows.")

The Mind Control session (3 original tapes) included six speakers:

1. Cook, Blanch -- The Garrison State and Mind Control (part 1-2) ("A chilling account of weather warfare, psychosurgery and behavior modification. Funds provided by LEAA in some cases.")
2. Georgakas, Dan -- Behavior Modification in Prisons (part 2) ("Revealing accounts of behavior mod and drugs used in prisons. Hurricane Carter and Martin Sostre cases are reviewed. Lobotomies and the Nuremberg principles. A subject no one can ignore.")
3. Freed, Donald -- (part 2) ("The links between behavior mod-brainwashing and Sirhan Sirhan. Explores use of Clockwork Orange techniques in political frameworks. Programmed assassins.")
4. Chorover, Steve -- Behavior Modification from Genesis to Genocide (part 2) ("Discusses the theoretical implications of behavior modification and mass control. Relates it all to the rise of Nazism.")
5. Burroughs, William -- (part 2) ("A speech on control by this infamous poet you just have to hear for yourself.")
6. Moore, Beverly -- Content Analysis of T.V. Commercials (part 3) ("This young lawyer from Nader talks about the lack of information in T.V. commercials. Touches on the vast amount of data supplied through such an innocent medium and its potential for abuse.")

The closing session of the Teach-In was titled "Looking Towards the Future" and included three speakers:

1. Stringfellow, William; Lawyer an theologian -- (part 1)
2. Rifkin, Jeremy, People's Bicentennial Commission -- The American Revolution: A Two-hundred Year Cover-up (part1) ("A high spirited look at the history of 'free enterprise' in America. Economic democracy and worker control. A timely tape that will counter all the rest of the 1776 bull shit around.")
3. Ahmad, Eqbal; Pasktani born journalist and antiwar activist -- Revolution in the Third-world (part 2-3) ("A closing to the Teach-In that is spiritual in the deepest sense of the word. A free-flowing rap that ties in all the material covered giving hope and strength to all in the struggle.")
4. Criley, Richard; - ACLU -- Tape ends with presentation by Richard Criley, American Civil Liberties Union, on press freedom, civil liberties and Nixon/Ford administrations crime bills "Senate Bill 1400" and "Senate Bill 1." Pakistani-born journalist Eqbal Ahmed closes the conference. The end of Eqbal Ahmad's talk appears to have been taped over part of another session.