Jason Bobe pointed out on the DIYbio mailing list that video is now available online from the 1976 Cambridge, MA city council hearings on recombinant DNA technology.
I saw this video a few years ago on VHS and was fascinated by the obvious parallels by the debates then on recombinant DNA and the debates today around synthetic biology. It's great to see this piece of history now online for all to see.
Posted by Reshma Shetty