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...shocking news from Jackson, tragedy at Kent State, is an appalling event, adding sorrow and bitterness to a situation already troubled almost beyond endurance. Our deepest sympathy goes out to the families of the victims and to the students, officers and faculty of the institution where the event occurred. Such a tragic happening points again to the pressing need for sanity and restraint in our tormented national life...
...Strike group has gathered 700 signatures for a letter to be sent to two dozen newspapers around the country protesting the relative lack of attention accorded the killing of six black people in Augusta, Georgia, last week, compared to the outrage at the killing of four white students at Kent State University in Ohio the week before. The letter was written before the Jackson State killings broke into print...
WITH an almost manic abruptness, the nation seemed, as Yeats once wrote, "all changed, changed utterly." With the killing of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen last week, dissent against the U.S. venture into Cambodia suddenly coalesced into a nationwide student strike. Across the country 441 colleges and universities were affected, many of them shut down entirely. Antiwar fever, which President Richard Nixon had skillfully reduced to a tolerable level last fall, surged upward again to a point unequaled since Lyndon Johnson was driven from the White House. The military advantage to be gained in Cambodia seemed...
...over 1000-strong. Kennedy greeted them without the aid of a suit coat or an administrative assistant, and led them into his office. He apologized for being late, saying he had been lining up Coretta King and Judy Collins-"she's the new Joan Bacz, you know"-for a Kent State memorial service that night. This time, Neustadt started...
...guardsmen involved in the shooting have been isolated in an armory 30 miles from Kent where ACLU lawyers have not been allowed to interview them...