This interview was recorded in 1964. The speaker (who didn't use his name) is telling the story of what happened to him at Bethlehem Steel because he was a thinking man who just decided to say what he saw both inside his company and in other big corporations.

He was successful. He was rich. He lived a comfortable life with five children and a wife and a beautiful home in a beautiful area, the Lehigh River Valley in Pennsylvania. A dream of retirement with a fat 401(k). It was all just perfect.

Except he decided to think for himself as an individual American citizen, to speak out about individual freedom, about creeping socialism as he saw it, about big government as a sort, about big corporations including his own, Bethlehem Steel.

It is worth your time to watch his story. He is talking about freedom of speech inside the corporate world, controlled by public relations departments who told workers in no uncertain terms not to speak without corporate permission. I have worked for corporations as an independent communications guy for over 50 years and to be honest, I never got along with the PR folks. They weren't really about public relations but instead were about corporate message control.

As you will see in this story, when he said what he felt, what he saw, Bethlehem Steel fired him immediately and gave him two days severance plus vacation time. They took him out of his office that day.

This interview was presented on national public television at a time when it was impossible to speak out from inside a corporation and not get punished in some way. Individual workers like this man would just beginning to find out that the corporations that they work for did not have their back when they stepped out of line.

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