May 4th, 1970 General Canterbury, gave the order that the demonstrators must disperse. They even drove around in a jeep telling the protestors that the rally was banned, and that they must disperse. Then the protesters, began throwing things at the jeep, so the jeep retreated. The Guard was ordered, by Canterbury, to load and lock their weapons, and fire tear gas canisters into the crowd around the Victory Bell, and then ordered the Guard to march in an attempt to disperse the rally. The protestors, were pushed into the Prentice Hall parking lot as well as the football field. As the Guard assembled on top of a small hill, twenty-eight of the more than seventy Guardsmen turned suddenly and fired their rifles and pistols. Some of the guardsmen
The influence of political factors and change cannot be ignored when weighing up the most significant cause of rebellion throughout the Tudor period. Both in England and Ireland, political unrest was common among all of the Tudor Monarchs meaning it was a consistent factor in all rebellions across the era. The main problems came from self-serving greed, with plans to overthrow the Monarchs in order to position someone who would be in their favour or get rid of corrupt advisors in order to attain more political influence.
Hurley to intervene. Hurley not Hoover ordered General Douglas MacArthur get control of the situation and bring an end the rioting. On September 28, 1932 General MacArthur issued a statement about the riot on July 28, 1932. MacArthur did not mention the extreme use of military force he employed to put down the riot. He did not discuss the use of tear gas on marchers and their women and children, nor did he mention setting fire to their shanties. However, he did state “it is my opinion that had the President not acted today, had he permitted things to go for 24 more hours, he would have been faced with a grave situation…I believe that the institutions of our Government would have been very severely threatened.” The fact that no one was seriously injured and no real bloodshed occurred during the military action is amazing. The Anacostia Flats encampment was set ablaze, the other encampment had been vacated, and the so called bonus marchers had been forced out of the city by the nations
The first major antiwar march on Washington D.C. took place in April of 1965. It was organized by the Students for a Democratic Society, and attracted over twenty-five thousand people (McCormick, 37). College students made up a majority of the protestors in almost any gathering. "However the antiwar movement
On May 1 1970 a massive demonstration was held at Kent State, on the Commons (a grassy area in the center of campus that is used as a gathering place for rallies) and another one was planned for May 4. The students were angry and there were many who were calling to "bring the war home."
Earlier in the weekend, university officials banned all protests and assemblies on campus. Students ignored this ruling and began congregating around eleven AM for the scheduled twelve noon protest. When the protest began, a Kent State police officer patrolled the campus with several guardsmen in a jeep announcing that the protest was illegal and everyone must leave the campus immediately. In response to this dispersion call, the students became violent, throwing rocks and attacking the jeep. The general in charge of the guardsmen in Kent, General Canterbury, ordered the guardsmen to arm themselves and fire tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd. As the crowd of
As the march was going on with the veterans, bricks were being thrown at the marchers and gas was used. Some were killed during their march which was not expected to happen. No matter
The English Civil War was one of the most radical wars of its time It sparked rebellions similar to Spain and France It had economic components, religious components, territory components and government/policies components. I am going to talk about the economic components which I think had a major play.
On April 30,1970, President Richard Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft over 150,000 soldiers to help in the Vietnam effort. Many colleges across the nation reacted in protest. One college in particular was Kent State University in Ohio. On May 4, students engulfed in violent measures including setting the ROTC building on fire. This prompted the governor of Ohio to send nine hundred National Guardsmen to campus. Twenty-eight guardsman opened fire among the protesters, killing four students and injuring nine others. Many other colleges across the nation engaged in similar acts of protest following the invasion.
These protests affected the government’s decision on rolling thunder and on the 31 March 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson announced that there would be no more bombing above the 20th parallel. Although Lyndon B. Johnson reduced the amount of bombs being dropped, the bombs themselves had caused huge devastation to Vietnam and by ‘1970 the Americans had dropped more bombs on Vietnam than they had on any other previous target’ . These protests had caused more uproar in 1970 at Kent state university national guards openly shot at protesters killing them; this helped destroy the governments mandate even more by more American citizens questioning the mandate of the containment policy.
On May Day, the protests in Seattle turned violent resulting in nine people being arrested and five officer injuries. Among the violence that happened, rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown at police as well as property. These May Day protests were mostly about anti-capitalism. Luckily for the police of Seattle, they were already prepared for this kind of act to occur as similar May Day protests have occurred in the past in Seattle. Of course, Ed Murray, the mayor, thanked the police for handling the situation well and disapproved of the violence that erupted.
700 people arrested on April 30. It also inspired student protests across the country. Today, we spend the hour looking back at this pivotal moment. We are joined by Raymond Brown, former leader of the Student Afro-American Society; Nancy Biberman, a Barnard College student who joined the protests as a member of Students for Democratic Society; Mark Rudd, chair of the Columbia Fifty years ago today, on April 23, 1968, hundreds of students at Columbia University in New York started a revolt on campus. They occupied five buildings, including the president’s office in Low Library, then students barricaded themselves inside the buildings for days. They were protesting Columbia’s ties to military research and plans to build a university gymnasium
On April 17th, 1989, university students gathered in Tiananmen Square, the national landmark which has held important national and international events throughout history. The death of Yaobang Hu, a resigned Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary, resulted in massive mourning by students. Over time, the mourning turned into a demonstration: university students in China protested, viewing the CCP as a corrupt government. The demonstration grew due to the belief that democratic ideals would repeal the corruption that was emerging. However, the movement itself was seen as a rebellion against the CCP. After two months of protesting, the government decided to impose martial law upon Beijing to take back the square from the protesters. The
The English Civil War were multiple events of armed battles and political machinations between Parliamentarians(Roundheads) and Royalists(Cavaliers) over the English government.
March 16 saw a demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama in which 580 demonstrators planned to march “from the Jackson Street Baptist Church to the Montgomery County Courthouse” (Reed 26). These protestors included a large number of northern college students. They met a police line a few blocks from the Courthouse and were forbidden from proceeding because “they did not have a parade permit” (Reed 26). Across the street came 40 or so students who planned on joining the group en route to the Courthouse. Eventually a few of the demonstrators dared to cross the street, led by James Forman who had organized the march. When it seemed the whole group would cross, police took action, with mounted officers and volunteers arriving at 1:12 pm. Riding into the small group of protestors, they forced most to withdraw, but a few stood fast around a utility pole where horsemen began to beat them. “A posseman
I attended catechism every week up until my confirmation and am well-versed with the opposition’s stance. Normally, the protestors outside would not have given me pause, but today they were entering into new territory. They were particularly raucous. Yelling at patients not to “kill their unborn children,” telling people “they were going to hell,” and all the while the horn sounded in the background. Many of the women entering the health center looked frightened. They hurried inside wide-eyed, glancing over their shoulders at the tumultuous crowd. I understand and recognize the right to protest peacefully as an essential part of protecting free speech in this country, but on this day the protesters were blatantly harassing and intimidating