Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kent State. Attica...
Last Resort. The nine surviving student victims of the Kent State shooting and the parents of the four youths who were killed on May 4, 1970, had filed a $46 million civil suit against Ohio Governor James Rhodes, former Kent State University President Robert White, Ohio National Guard Commanders Robert Canterbury and Sylvester Del Corso and a number of Guardsmen involved in the firing. They did so as a last resort. An Ohio state grand jury that looked into the case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...owed the gratitude of everyone in the courtroom, regardless of whether they benefited by your decision, and of everyone in this free land." Shouted Thomas Grace, a wounded student: "What freedom? This trial has been a sham in every way." Arthur Krause, whose daughter Allison died at Kent State, delivered a similar verdict: "Thanks to these jurors, murder by the state is correct...
Back here in the USA there was lots going on that affected the state of the national Faith. I'm almost positive that some Faith was lost when Governor Rhodes of Ohio told us that the demonstrators at Kent State were "worse than Nazi scum," and then watched the National Guard murder four of them. More Faith disappeared when the Mississippi State Police blasted student demonstrators at Jackson State and then told an ambulance driver to "come pick up a couple of dead niggers." But these are small events. They alone couldn't be responsible for all the missing Faith...
...Agee had decided to write about the CIA. Increasing disillusionment with the U.S. government in the wake of the Cambodian invasion and the Kent State killings evidently moved Agee to begin to assemble his own list of official crimes committed for God and country. In spite of extensive CIA harassment. Agee finally completed the book last year. An English publisher accepted it after a number of U.S. firms had rejected the manuscript on the grounds that it was too boring...