May 9, 1971 - Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand speaking at the Ford Hall Forum. Rand’s speech is titled The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, based on a 1971 collection of essays in which Rand argues that religion, the New Left, and similar forces are irrational and harmful.
October 7, 1973 - Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward speaking at Ford Hall Forum. Title of address was “Watergate: A National Crisis.”
October 21, 1973 - Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand speaking at Ford Hall Forum. Rand’s address was titled “Censorship: Local and Express.”
November 17, 1974 - Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand speaking at Ford Hall Forum. Rand’s address was titled “Egalitarianism and Inflation.”
July 7, 1976 - Ayn Rand speaking at the Ford Hall Forum at Boston's Northeastern University. Topic of address is on the United States Bicentennial and politics.
May 16, 1982 - Black author Maya Angelou speaks her mind at the Ford Hall Forum as she receives the Forum's 1st Amendment Award at event.
August 1, 1983 - I. F. Stone, a journalist, social critic, and editor-publisher of I. F. Stone's Weekly, speaks on "A Maverick's View of the World" at Ford Hall Forum.