"It's good news week
Someone dropped a bomb somewhere
Contaminating the atmosphere
Blackening the skies"
This song was sung
During the Vietnam war
Protesting forevermore
College students
Rallies-Peace marches
Rioting and burning
Colleges in turmoil-
Kent State, Kent, Ohio
National Guard on May 4, 1970
Trigger happy
Shooting and killing students
Not well trained were they-
A revolver was pointed, was disputed
The young man was shot down
Obscene gestures all around
Confusion and wrong choices
One student, Allison
Put a daisy in a National Guard's gun-
There were 5 killed that day,
Allison, Sandy, Doug, Jeff and Bill
Only 19 and 20 years old-
14 had wounds-
The furthest was 600 yards away
Kent State changed the way
Policing was done on campus'
Across the board-
"It's Good News Week"
Still-
In our country as well as others...
Pulitzer Prize winning picture taken by
John Filo, a student photojournalist.
The girl kneeling was a runaway.
A poignant reminder of those times… Hard to forget.
I worked 30 years at Texas Southern University. Although little publicized, in 1968, the National Guard marched down through campus and fired on protesting students. Bullet holes remain in some of the dormitories from that incident where no one was killed.
When I came to campus in 1981, the campus security force, numbering about 10 people, was under scrutiny because the campus had suffered an armed robbery of the cashier at fall registration. Over the years, the police force as been continually beefed up, and now numbers about 50 people, 40 of which are armed officers.
Texas Legislature just passed a law allowing students to "open carry" firearms on campus. For some reason I see a confrontation coming…
Eh . . . Those were the early days of organized rebellion and you are correct, the National Guard was scared, and trigger happy. Also, they were not trained in how to react in that sort protest against America.
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I worked 30 years at Texas Southern University. Although little publicized, in 1968, the National Guard marched down through campus and fired on protesting students. Bullet holes remain in some of the dormitories from that incident where no one was killed.
When I came to campus in 1981, the campus security force, numbering about 10 people, was under scrutiny because the campus had suffered an armed robbery of the cashier at fall registration. Over the years, the police force as been continually beefed up, and now numbers about 50 people, 40 of which are armed officers.
Texas Legislature just passed a law allowing students to "open carry" firearms on campus. For some reason I see a confrontation coming…
Ron
Love ya!
Jane