Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night he added, "We have asked our tutors. House Masters, and professors to try to flood areas of possible confrontation, as at Shannon Hall last night...
Dunlop was apparently referring to what many had assumed was a spontaneously organized mass of students who had blocked the SDS march on Shannon Hall at the intersection...
...evident lack of political focus can be partially explained by the crowd's confused itinerary for that evening. The motley collection of high school kids, street people, and students who persisted in holding the Square Friday night had begun the evening with the vague intention of burning down Shannon Hall, headquarters for Harvard ROTC. There is no evidence that they felt strongly about Shannon Half in particular indeed, most of them had little idea where it was SDS, which had originally planned a march to Shannon Hall after the rally, had canceled the march in a meeting Thursday night. Only...
When the crowd finally reached Shannon Hall, it found a dozen Harvard policemen lined up in front of the building and busloads of state troopers encamped a block away. So the crowd stood in the parking lot for 20 minutes in an uneasy quiet punctuated occasionally by a rock or skirmish. With hundreds of cops just seconds away, the strategy of attacking the building seemed dubious at best and the suspense was finally broken when a cry went up for the CFIA...
Throughout the evening, the group was leaderless and disorganized-so much so that at one point it lost its way and almost missed Shannon Hall...