Yesterday, Bob Stroud did a Time Warp back to May 3, 1970, on his Rock and Roil Roots Show on WDRV FM, the Drive, in Chicago. This is where he plays the top songs in Chicago on that date. Lots of memories, plus, I was thinking about what I was doing back then. I tried to remember whether or not Kent State had happened.
I was a freshman at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb and pledging Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. The campus had been tense all fall and winter over the Vietnam War. Then, a few days earlier, President Nixon had announced that we had gone into Cambodia, which just made thye situation worse.
We, and most college campuses, had marches to protest the US deepening involvement. On the foll lowing day, a protest at Kent State University in Ohio resulted in four troops being killed by National Guard troops.
We students felt that was a direct attack on us, and the previously peaceful protests got continually more violent after that.
It came to a head at Northern a few days later and we had some very frightening riots.
A Scary Time. --Cooter
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