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Vol. 1 No. 4
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4, 1978
Schedule:May 1-6:
10:00a.m.-8:00p.m
MAY 4th ART EXHIBIT
Student Center Art Gallery
Sketches, paintings and photographs by: Ruth Gikow, Sonny
Canfora, Bonnie Mauch,Craig Megyes and other area artists. Memoriam Booklet to be
distributed by Art Exhibit.
May 3rd: .
5:00p.m POT LUCK DINNER AND
RECEPTION FOR PER-
FORMING ARTISTS
Center for Peaceful Change |
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7:00p.m. FREE ACOUSTIC CONCERT |
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KSU REPRESSION UPDATE |
Student Center Ballroom
Provisional Theatre of Los Angeles will perform the improvisational production of
"Voice of the People."
Music Performances by several area and national artists:Barbara Dane
Chic Canfora
Jim Ballard
Fatima Abdullah
Sally Parrino
10:30p.m. Candlelight March
Beginning on the Commons
11:30p.m. Family Statement
Prentice Parking Lot
Families of the KSU shooting victims will present a public statement at the
conclusion of the candlelight march. Their attorneys and others will be preent to discuss
the upcoming trial against Gov. Rhodes and the Ohio National Guard.
12:00
Midnight till ALL
NIGHT VIGIL
Noon
Prentice
Parking Lot
May 4th:
11:30 a.m. RALLY ON THE COMMONS
Songs by Nationally known folksingers
12:00noon VIGIL
ENDS:MOMENT OF
SILENCE
12:15P.M. TASK
FORCE PROGRAM
KSU Commons(Rain:Mem.Gym)
SPEAKERS
Daniel Ellsburg:anti-war activist who revealed the Pentagon Papers.
William Kunstler : activist lawyer who coordinated the defense of the Kent
25
Vernon Bellecourt:co-leader of the American Indian Movement
Abdul Alkalilmat:Founder of African Liberation Support Committee, Black
Scholor Magazine, People's College
Clark Kissinger:Ex-President of Students for a Democratic Society, 1964
Alan Canfora:Wounded at Kent State in 1970 and Kent 25 Defendant
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CANFORA & RAMBO
Alan Canfora and Greg Rambo were acquitted Wed., April 26, of criminal trespass
charges stemming from the "bullhorn incident" of March 30th. The University's
attempt to railroad Canfora and Rambo into jail for 30 days failed due to
"insufficient evidence" for conviction in the court. In the real world, however,
Canfora and Rambo were freed due to the outrage expressed by students who packed the
courtroom, outrage directed against the University for its role in covering-up and
attempting to silence anyone who speaks out about the murders of May 4, 1970. The May 4th
Coalition thanks everyone who packed the courtroom that day, and invites the students of
KSU to hear Alan, Greg, and many others who will be speaking at the Task Force Program
this May 4th.DODGE
Carter Dodge's appeal is pending regarding his 6-month suspension from the
University. His suspension is the result of the University's trumped-up charges that Dodge
"disrupted the good order of the University" when he correctly pointed out that
Glenn Perusek's leafleting charge was simply an attempt by the University to silence
students who speak out about the events of May 4th, 1970at Perusek's hearing. Students
should be ready to actively support Dodge and any other students who face similar
repressive acts brought down by the University.
BRATNOBER, MOSHER, & ABDULLAH
Jane Bratnober, Mary Mosher, and Fatimah Abdullah were acquitted of their
charges of "disrupting the good order of the University" and of using a |
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bullhorn at an "unauthorized"
rally held on March 30th.
Coalition attorney Barbara Child's questions around why the whiteslips had been
issued three weeks after the "bullhorn incident" occurred drew
responses from several low-level KSU administrators which clearly exposed their
conspiratorial attempts to frame the 3 defendants. This conspiracy involved a 3-week delay
during which Dave Bratten, head of Student Center Operations, sat on Mosher's and
Abdullah's whiteslips until Herb Cherek, Curator of Rockwell Hall, decided to issue a
whiteslips against Bratnober. Cherek reached this decision after speaking with campus
police who informed him that Bratnober was using a bullhorn outside Rockwell Hall.
This obvious attempt by the University to stifle individuals who speak out about
the May 4th murders reflects the University's continuing efforts to cover-up the events of
May 4th, 1970. This cover-up is quickly becoming exposed through the determination of
people at Kent and around the country to speak the truth about May 4th. The 100 people who
attended the Bratnober-Mosher -Abdullah hearing were instrumental in jamming the Hearing
Board into dropping the charges against the three defendants. Throught their efforts, the
slogan rang true: COURTS! ARRESTS! INJUNCTIONS! JAIL! ALL THEIR EFFORTS TO STOP US WILL
FAIL!
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD THIS MAY 4th! CONDEMN THE REAL CRIMINALS, DEMAND JUSTICE FOR
THE VICTIMS OF MAY 4th, 1970! |
Greg Rambo:May 4, 1970 eye-witness and member of the May 4th
Coalition. |
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May 4 and KSU Faculty----(continued
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Bill Arthrell:May 4th eye-witness
and Kent 25 defendant
Jeter Pitman: Member of Blak United Students at Kent State.
3:30p.m. TRUTH DEMANDS
JUSTICE MARCH
KSU Commons,
through the streets of
Kent and the campus ending at the
Student
Center.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL:
May 4th Coalition/Kent Legal Defenxe Fund
678-2751
May 4th Task Force
672-3207
*FRONT PAGE
The front page of our special May 4, 1978, edition depicts actual scenes of May,
1970, its criminal participants and the agents of the cover-up.
For your easy identification, certain criminals are numbered:1)R.Nixon;
2)Gov.Rhodes; 3)L. Satrom, 1970 mayor of Kent; 4)R. White, 1970 pres. KSU; 5)Gen. S.
DelCorso; 6)Gen R. Canterbury; 7)R. Kane, Portage Countyprosecutor-1970; 8)G. Old, pres.
KSU, 1971-77; 9)F. Biles, KSU VP and professional liar; 10)B, Golding, tyrannical KSU
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Last spring there were enough KSU faculty
members' signatures on a petition to move the gym that te=hey filled a full-page ad in the
DKS. That was about the same time that the May 4th oalition made one of its demands that
the UFPA, the faculty union, secure their preliminary contract, a Memorandum of
Understanding. When the agreement was signed shortly afterwards, union negotiators
acknowledged that the Coalition's support had been instrumental. During the summer, UFPA,
represented by attorney Staughton Lynd, entered the legal battle to move the gym, but that
suit was eventually dropped, in spite of strong urging to the contrary by Lynd and some of
the UFPA leadership.
But all that faulty action---most o it UFPA action---was last year. This spring
some faculty members have become very active; but, they are different faculty members, and
their actions are very different. It is this new group that is responsible for the "Letter
to Our Students" sistributed on campus Monday, April 17, and reprinted in the DKS.
This letter asks students to accept as "reasonable assumptions" that
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that "this university community was
not actually of morally responsible for the shootings," that "no one can have a
lok on sorrow, or can tell another when to weep, or can know if, when, and how much
another has already wept," and that "this University is not a ourt or a apita
and cannot render legal justice in the case."
This letter to students is signed, "From faculty members of Kent State
Universtiy." The text of the letter refers to "the hundreds who stand behind
these words." Even though the words have apparently been carefully chosen so as not
to be technically inaccurate, the impression has sitll been created that most, or even
all, of the faculty have endorsed the letters. That impression is absolutely false.
The KSU community intitled to know the truth about this group and how its public
statements came about. After apparently several meetins of a small group to make initial
plans, they reserved room 310 of the Student Center for a large meeting on April 3. They
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