Cases / The American Landing / David Gilbert
The American Landing · dossier
Filed as person, standing in three authored connections inside The American Landing.
Identity
Name, aliases, dates, locations.
Role in this research
Named in Na 3, 875 in connection with an SDS Marcuse conference.
Evidence basis
Research Memo: Marcuse's American Transition and New Left Bridge.
Identity and aliases
David Gilbert, named in Marcuse Nachlass Na 3, 875 in connection with an SDS conference about Marcuse. Aliases or naming cautions: No additional alias established in this pass.
Dated role and investigative relevance
Within file range 1965-1973; likely connected to 1967 planning but exact item date pending. Named conference correspondent whose record connects an individual, SDS, a proposed event, and the archive at finding-aid level.
Specific evidence
The official finding aid lists a letter from David Gilbert concerning a Marcuse conference of SDS. New Left Notes separately announced a proposed conference in June 1967.
- Herbert Marcuse Nachlass Na 3, 875
- New Left Notes, 12 June 1967
Geography
41 Union Square West, Manhattan, New York City
Assessment and confidence
High for the inventoried letter; medium for linking it to the exact published proposal until the item is inspected. Keep letter, announcement, and event occurrence as separate claims.
What this record does not establish
The finding aid does not prove Gilbert organized the published conference, that it occurred, or that Marcuse attended.
Follow-up gaps
Inspect the letter, compare its address and dates to the notice, and trace later New Left Notes issues.
Research provenance
Research Memo: Marcuse's American Transition and New Left Bridge. MarxPro results used here are from the marx primary lane; external university, archive, and movement sources are identified separately above.
Correspondence-file role
SDS correspondent concerning a proposed Marcuse conference. Public evidence is limited to the Na 3, 875 inventory unless another source is named.
Boundary
No response, agreement, advice, endorsement, membership, or operational coordination is inferred. Research Memo: Marcuse, SDS, and Radical Education Project Correspondence
Documented reception role
Co-author of the 1967 Praxis article and member of the NAC-approved Praxis editorial board.
Evidence boundary
This record supports the named document-level act. Publication, co-authorship, editorial-board service, membership, and organizational adoption remain separate.
Research Memo: Gramsci in Specific American New Left Organizations and Publications
1967 proposed-conference role
Named in the public Na 3, 875 inventory as associated with a writing concerning an SDS Marcuse conference; the restricted item was not inspected.
Research Memo: The Announced 1967 New York SDS Marcuse Conference
The archive holds three authored connections for this record inside The American Landing. Each row below states the claim, its tier, its confidence, and the dates the record gives. Open a row for the full account, or open it on the case canvas to see the connection drawn.
REL-000003Documentary reference to 1965-1973 file span; exact item date unavailable Account not writtenDavid Gilbert documentary reference to New York SDS announces a Marcuse conference.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. New York SDS announces a Marcuse conference →
REL-000382Relationship wording unavailable 1965-1973 Account not writtenDavid Gilbert · Relationship wording unavailable · Herbert Marcuse Nachlass Na 3, 875.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Herbert Marcuse Nachlass Na 3, 875 →
REL-000383Relationship wording unavailable 1965-1973 Account not writtenDavid Gilbert · Relationship wording unavailable · Na 3, 875 inventory unit: David Gilbert writing on proposed SDS Marcuse conference.
documented confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Na 3, 875 inventory unit: David Gilbert writing on proposed SDS Marcuse conference →