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Before the shooting What was your perspective of the war while you were attending Kent State University prior to the incident? My personal perspective was, I was not anti-war but I did not want to participate in the war. So, just a little bit of discontinuity, but there were a number of people throughout the country who were anti-war and it was a growing movement. But Kent was a very conservative school for the most part and there was not a large amount of anti-war people who were at Kent State at the time, in May of 1970. What was the national sentiment during this time? Nationally, the protest movements were growing. You saw a protest movement growing in the early 60′s, primarily focused on Civil Rights and Free Speech. There was a Free Speech movement in the mid-60′s at Berkeley. Also in the mid-60′s, at about ’64-’65, they put ground troops into Vietnam so you had the beginnings of anti-war movement in Vietnam. You saw Students for Democratic Society (SDS), the Underground Weatherman, and a number of national protest organizations start to grow and they were taking root in a number of universities. University of Michigan, where the SDS was formed, was a bit of a hotbed for protest movements. Some of the larger universities like Berkeley, Stanford, University of Texas, and even Ohio State, but not Kent State. So you had a growing national movement but when an organization that had some 200 chapters, such as the SDS, tried to form at Kent State they weren’t successful. They had a couple demonstrations there and they ended up having more anti-SDS people at the demonstration than they did people supporting them.
Object Description
Profile of | Bryan Shaul |
Title | Kent State Massacre: The Day the War Came Home |
Profile bio | Bryan Shaul was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and grew up in a small farming community southwest of Mansfield, Ohio. He attended Northwestern University as a journalism major, but lost focus and dropped out in his second year. When he returned home, he supported himself by booking local rock bands with one of his high school friends. With the Vietnam War ramping up it was not a good time to be male, single and self-employed. Bryan decided to return to college joining many kindred spirits seeking to get a II-S draft deferment. With some experience running his own business, Bryan decided to major in accounting. Bryan chose Kent State University because, at that time, Kent had a respectable accounting program. This time Bryan would have to pay the bills for his education. He was able to convince the administration at Kent State administration that he could attend undergraduate school while functioning as a grad counselor in one of the dorms. Grad counselors received free room and board and a private suite. Bryan received his undergraduate degree a year after the shootings. Recently, Bryan retired and now divides his time between a cabin on the lake in Cascade, Idaho and a condo on Main Street in Huntington Beach |
Profiler bio | Adan Macias is a senior from Los Angeles, CA majoring in architecture. Riley Mathies is a junior from Newport Beach, CA majoring in communication, minoring in entrepreneurship. Matthew Parvizyar is a senior from Los Angeles, CA majoring in real estate (PPD). Murphy Sharma is a sophomore from Fort worth, TX majoring in chemistry (pre-med). |
Subject |
antiwar free speech movement SDS Vietnam Vietnam war Kent State National Guard Protest campus shooting |
Profiled by | Macias, Adan; Mathies, Riley; Parvizyar, Matthew; Sharma, Murphy |
Profile date | 2014-03-14 |
Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Northampton; Mansfield; Cascade; Huntington Beach |
Geographic subject (county) | Hampshire; Richland; Valley; Orange |
Geographic subject (state) | Massachusetts; Ohio; Idaho; California |
Geographic subject (country) | USA; Cambodia |
Coverage date | 1970 |
Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/bryan-shaul/ |
Type |
images video |
Format | 1 image; 5 video files (00:20:33); 5 transcripts |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
Filename | shaulbryan |
Description
Profile of | Bryan Shaul |
Title | Before the Shooting |
Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
Filename | shaulbryan-vid1_tr1.pdf |
Full text | Before the shooting What was your perspective of the war while you were attending Kent State University prior to the incident? My personal perspective was, I was not anti-war but I did not want to participate in the war. So, just a little bit of discontinuity, but there were a number of people throughout the country who were anti-war and it was a growing movement. But Kent was a very conservative school for the most part and there was not a large amount of anti-war people who were at Kent State at the time, in May of 1970. What was the national sentiment during this time? Nationally, the protest movements were growing. You saw a protest movement growing in the early 60′s, primarily focused on Civil Rights and Free Speech. There was a Free Speech movement in the mid-60′s at Berkeley. Also in the mid-60′s, at about ’64-’65, they put ground troops into Vietnam so you had the beginnings of anti-war movement in Vietnam. You saw Students for Democratic Society (SDS), the Underground Weatherman, and a number of national protest organizations start to grow and they were taking root in a number of universities. University of Michigan, where the SDS was formed, was a bit of a hotbed for protest movements. Some of the larger universities like Berkeley, Stanford, University of Texas, and even Ohio State, but not Kent State. So you had a growing national movement but when an organization that had some 200 chapters, such as the SDS, tried to form at Kent State they weren’t successful. They had a couple demonstrations there and they ended up having more anti-SDS people at the demonstration than they did people supporting them. |
Archival file | Volume3/shaulbryan-vid1_tr1.pdf |