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Richard Nixon originally appointed the Scranton commission because of the bloodshed at Jackson State and Kent State universities. Having reported first on the general tensions between students and society, the group has now turned to specific cases. The last two reports it has released leave no ground for charges of being "imprecise" or "equivocal." Instead, they come down hard on Mississippi policemen and strongly criticize the Ohio National Guard for their indiscriminate firing at students last spring...
...tape, which was received and played at the New York headquarters of the Yippies two days ago, said the Weathermen plan a fall offensive which will spread from "Santa Barbara to Boston and back to Kent State and Kansas. Now we are everywhere and next week families and tribes will...
...black and white men in uniform of all branches and ranks along the Vietnam landscape, asking each to answer 109 questions. I interviewed many at length. The results of that survey, some of which are included here, were recently tabulated with the assistance of Thomas Pettigrew and Kent Smith of the Harvard University faculty and Howard Zinn of the Boston University faculty...
...commission, headed by former Pennsylvania governor William W. Scranton, used the Kent State experience to underline the recommendation of its main report last week, which called for a cooling of rhetoric on all sides, moral leadership by the President himself, and an end to the undue leniency of some college administrators and unwarranted harshness by some law enforcement officials...
Finally, "a significant proportion" of those at the burning were not Kent State students...