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While I was poking around to

we are stardust — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:17:39 +0000

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While I was poking around to find more on the killings at Jackson State, I ran into so many accounts of KSU that were still just utter fabrications; astounding, really, but it was a key event in Nixon's presidency, so...The Truth will no doubt stay waaaaaay out there. When we'd do the noon peace vigils, there were always guys with cameras on the nearbye rooves (roofs) snapping pix. We were all sure we had FBI jackets. Heard that most people who requested theirs through FOIA were almost sad to see them almost empty. But who knows? There was a lot of fear back then. Think COINTELPRO and the American Indian Movement. Arrrgg!

I was up there...in Cleveland

cmaukonen — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:13:00 +0000

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I was up there...in Cleveland (just north of Kent) only 4 months after it happened. An amazing situation. Knew a guy, an anthropology major, that was there at the time.

The students at Jackson State

we are stardust — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:00:20 +0000

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The students at Jackson State never got a song. I was wrong: 2 killed, a dozen injured. It all started the slide toward Watergate and Nixon's paranoia. What a chapter in history. I happend to have gone from Colorado back to Kent, and literally wandered into the first commemorative event on campus on the commons below Blanket Hill (a rather memorable place in it's own right.) ;o)

One of Allison Krause's friends read a poem she'd written for her. My stars; it makes my heart hurt even now.

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cmaukonen — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:24:04 +0000

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