KENT STATE MASSACRE PROTEST FILM VIETNAM WAR U.C. BERKELEY CAMPUS MAY 4, 1970 XD14544
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This untitled Vietnam War protest film was probably made by a student at UC Berkeley. Unfortunately there is no main title or credits so -- we just don't know. The film contrasts the war in Vietnam with the Kent State shootings, which took place on May 4, 1970 during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. The film shows some of the broader reaction to the news of the Kent State tragedy, including the U.C. Berkeley campus on strike. The b&w film uses still photography and live action footage to make its points about police brutality, the military industrial complex, and the misguided policies of the Nixon Administration with regard to the Vietnam War.
The film begins with images of Richard Nixon and audio about the war in Vietnam, before transitioning abruptly to images from Kent State. At 1:02, protests at UC Berkeley is shown with a banner reading "Stop Nixon's Slaughter". At 1:11, a large cadre of police are shown at the UC campus. At 1:53, shots of the Daily Californian newspaper headlines announcing that Governor Ronald Reagan has closed the campus to quash protests. At 1:58, inside a student organizer headquarters is shown with different positions in the group described -- from "Internal Education" to "External Education". At 2:02, students are shown making silk screens of protest posters. The poster shown at 2:10 is "Amerika is Devouring its Children" by artist Jay Bellioli. This poster visually paraphrases Francisco Goya’s painting, Saturn Devouring his Son. The poster shown at 2:20 with the Campanile clock tower of UC Berkeley in the background, and police in the foreground, was created by UC Berkeley student Sally Robertson in 1969 as a protest against police brutality. At 2:21 a sign for "Strike Shirts" is visible and an "End the War" poster with peace symbol. At 2:33, as music by Santana plays, student organizers are shown as well as mass production of posters and fliers. At 3:00 President Nixon appears on TV speaking about how he is "responsible for the lives of 300,000 Americans" in Vietnam while Bob Dylan music plays. At 3:26, members of the sheriff's department, in riot helmets, patrol the UC Berkeley campus. At 3:37, a moment of silent amidst the protests, in honor of the fallen. At 4:08 a sit in (probably in People's Park) is shown.
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My high school headmaster was in my states National Guard at the time (Not involved in Kent.) After this, ROE changed to only one man in the squad having live ammunition. He had the live ammo in his squad.
Damn hippies! 😅
Damn Republicans
We were a mess as a society back then and history is dying to repeat itself.
That's a fact.
The unhinged anti-semitism of the 1930s is back.
it IS repeating itself!
Damn hippies!
I hope y’all will reply to this that was awful what the National Guard did at Kent State in 1970…11 years later there was a made for television movie about it on NBC titled Kent State
I remember that day, I seen people with long hair getting beaten for nothing in my home town. Grown men out knocking down kids and cutting off their pony tails, I stay'd home and kept my hair. That was the day i became a hippy, not by choice, by profiling, and I've never changed.
Unfortunately history appears to be repeating itself. I feel this is worse than Vietnam protests. Thanks for bringing history to the small screen.
Don’t think so, Vietnam was a country our soldiers were actually fighting and dying in. It felt much closer to Americans. These kids today are wrapped up in something way bigger than they can even comprehend. I think they move on soon. School is ending and they will grow bored.
so this campus protest thing is like a long tradition!?
It's a young person thing
Pure Massacre
FAFO
When The Students start to gather, move and speak loud about something.....its mean there's something wrong in the country that need to be straight up!
Yes because people student age are so much smarter than everyone else. 🙄
Yes but the ”pro-Palestinian protests” now have nothing in common with the protests against an American involvement in the Vietnam war(s). A more accurate comparison are the anti-semitic protests of the 1930s.
Absolutely. I'd say there is one common ground of people who desire global peace are in both protests, and obviously some college students are there fir that reason. However, this current minimally attended but very disruptive protest is as American grown as borscht. There is no draft, the USA is not at war. Unlike the 60s and 70s there aren't outside agitators infiltrating, the current protests of the last few years are driven, funded and created by foreign governments.
Nonsense. Both Jews and Palestinians are Semites. Please look at the research. The accusation of anti-Semitism is unfounded.
The protests now and in Vietnam have one common goal: preventing the killing of civilians.
Disproportionate measures were used in the Gaza Strip. Many women and children were murdered. More than in any conflict in the world in the last 50 years. Including the war in Ukraine - even there fewer civilians died.
However, the international community is afraid to accuse Israel of crimes, because any criticism, even justified, is met with accusations of anti-Semitism. Israel's strength rests solely on US military support. Without it, they would pursue a more sustainable policy in this inflammatory region. And they allow themselves to bomb foreign embassies that have international extraterritorial status.
If one thinks that COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS meaningfully ended following the Church Committee hearings, and do not have latter-day equivalents that infiltrate groups of perceived dissidents and subversives across the political perspective, often as agent provocateurs, then I have a bridge to sell them (for some evidence, look up Terry Turchie, Emad Salem, PATCON, Eric McDavid, and Trevor Aaronson).
The good ol' days back when the US knew how to handle protests more effectively.
One of the victims was a girl who wasn't even taking part in the protests, she was just walking between classes. Sandra Lee Scheuer. The National Guard was filled with Silent Generation draft dodgers back then.
One of the victims was a young girl who wasn't even taking part in the protests, she was just walking between classes.
Fascist!
Douglas McArthur destroy a protest back before WW2
@@pan2ajaA protest of Army veterans. Patton was there as well.