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...very passive and uninvolved until the Kent State shootings. And then he made a complete reversal and collected money and recruited people to react to Kent State," said a library co-worker...
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Student violence and National Guard gunfire at Kent State University were condemned yesterday as "intolerable" and "inexcusable" by a Presidential commission which probed the May 4 killing of four students and the wounding of nine...
...Kent State tragedy must surely mark the last time that loaded rifles are issued as a matter of course to Guardsmen confronting student demonstrators," the commission said...
Crowd Orchestration. Even if it had been planned, no Brechtian genius could have staged the audience participation better. Before Nixon was 60 seconds into his speech, the platoon of hecklers began to shout: "Tell us about Kent State!" "Right on!" "Make more bombs!" The vast majority of the audience began a counterpoint of loud and sustained applause. Nixon, hearing the radicals, hurried his speech, with half-stops in his monotone. But his lines about "the willingness to listen to somebody without trying to shout him down" summoned up thunderous ovations...
Street Scenes 1970. Visually, aurally, this documentary is acute enough to be sealed in a cornerstone. Psychologically, philosophically, it is another kind of souvenir altogether. Street Scenes could serve the next century as a unilaterally disarming record of those wretched days in May following the Kent State tragedy. After ritual footage of William Kunstler expounding on youth as savior and David Dellinger paranoiacally linking the Mafia with the Federal Government, Director Martin Scorsese zeroes in on the futile confrontations of street people and straights, hardhats and students, soldiers and peace marchers...