VLVL "the Movement"

[jbor]

on 13/4/04 8:17 AM, MalignD at aol.com at MalignD at aol.com wrote:

>> Almost immediately, questions arose about why shots were fired and who was
>> responsible. Over 100,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington and students
at 
>> hundreds of campuses went "on strike.">>
> 
> Forgive me for misunderstanding that this was what you meant by the "March on
> Washington."

Actually, I'd referred to it as "the 1970 march on Washington following the
murders at Kent State", and you were swearing black and blue that it never
happened. But that's OK, you probably had your head up your backside back
then as well.

At Kent State there were two different groups organising the daytime
rallies, a peaceful group calling themselves World Historians Opposed to
Racism and Exploitation (WHORE) and a more radical group called the New
University Conference. But each night there was rioting and street fights in
the local town which weren't on the days' agenda. On the second night the
ROTC building on campus was burnt down. The Governor ordered a curfew, the
students defied it and rioted again the following night, and then at the
noon rally of the fourth day after another exchange of rock throwing and
tear gas the Guardsmen opened fire. You'd need to be pretty ignorant to try
to claim that student protests were this chaotic and poorly-organised in the
earlier period (1964-8), and that the course of events at Kent State was the
rule rather than the exception.

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