Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lucy DeLeone, clerk of the courts, put the match to one of the most controversial documents in recent U.S. history. She burned an 18-page document released by a special Ohio grand jury last year that absolved the National Guard of any responsibility in the slaying of four Kent State students. The grand jury indicted 24 youths and one professor on state riot charges...
Fifteen sign-carrying protestors yesterday defied an order by a judge in the Kent State trials and demonstrated outside the Portage County, Ohio, courthouse...
Meanwhile, inside the building, jury selection began in the case of Jerry Rupe, the first of 25 indicated student to come to trial. The students are charged with rioting during the May, 1970, disturbance the resulted in the deaths of four students at Kent State University...
...order was strongly attacked by Joseph A. Rhodes a junior fellow at Harvard, who called it "a very serious breach of constitutional ethic." Rhodes was the only student member of the Scranton Commission, which was established by President Nixon after the Kent State incident to investigate student unrest...
...case, the playing of Tarr and Kent was excellent. Tarr handled four different varieties of trumpet extermely well; and his mastery of the valveless trumpet is a great wonder considering the art was lost for nearly two centuries. The program had unusual offerings, but except for the Greene suite those that were not unusual were dull. There are far better ways to employ the skills of first-rank artists...