- Title: F-2503
- Summary: K.S.U. PEACE RALLY: APRIL, 1969. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY. STUDENTS PROTEST THE VIETNAM WAR. PEACE RALLY. PEACE MARCH. K.S.U. PEOPLE SPEAKING AT PODIUM ABOUT STUDENTS BEING SUSPENDED. STUDENTS APPLAUD. STUDENTS WERE "TRAPPED". STUDENTS SUSPENDED WITHOUT "DUE PROCESS OF LAW". 60 STUDENTS SUSPENDED ON APRIL 16. LAMB CHOP SIDEBURNS. CU FIST OF PROTEST. BOYCOTT OR STRIKE? PACKED AUDITORIUM. STUDENTS SPEAK UP. HANDS RAISED IN QUESTION VOTE. STUDENTS OUTSIDE OF AUDITORIUM LEAVING MASS OF STUDENTS OUT ON HILL. HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS STANDING IN FIELD. PEACEFUL PROTEST. NON-VIOLENCE. PHOTOGRAPHER. WALKING UP HILL TOWARD LIBRARY BUILDING. HOLD UP FINGERS IN PEACE SIGN. GUY PLAYS HARMONICA. PARKING LOT. 50S - 60S VINTAGE CARS. GIRLS LOOK DOWN FROM DORM ROOMS. EXTREME VS OF LINE OF PROTESTERS. COUPLE SITS ON SIDEWALK WITH UMBRELLA. SIGNS ON DOOR WINDOWS. OLD? WHITE-HAIRED MAN HOLDS UP FINGERS, PEACE SIGN. ALBINO. PEOPLE'S NAMES POSTED ON DORM WINDOWS. VOLKSWAGEN BUG DRIVES BY.
- Description:01:16:41 - COLLEGE STUDENT AUDIENCE, WILDLY CLAPPING, COLLARED SHIRTS, CLEAN CUT 01:16:53 - PROFILE OF MALE COLLEGE STUDENT LEANING FORWARD TALKING INTO MICROPHONE, RELATING HIS EXPERIENCE BEING LOCKED IN SOMEWHERE ON KENT STATE CAMPUS, LET OUT BY PROFESSOR WITH A KEY, CHANCE OF BEING SUSPENDED, WILD APPLAUSE. CAMERA ZOOMS IN, STUDENT DISCUSSES SDS, AND STUDENTS BEING SUSPENDED AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY CODE. MUTTON CHOP SIDE BURNS. "STICKING UP FOR DUE PROCESS OF LAW" 01:18:39 - CAMERA PANS QUICKLY THE AUDIENCE, WILDLY APPLAUDING AND HOLLERING 01:18:50 - LS OF CROWDED AUDITORIUM 01:18:51 - MS OF FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENT IN AUDIENCE WATCHING AND LISTENING TO SPEAKER. HAND TO MOUTH, SPEAKING TO SOMEONE ON HER LEFT. 01:18:58 - PROFILE OF WHITE MALE COLLEGE STUDENT DISCUSSING SDS AND PRESIDENT WHITE OF KENT STATE AND REINSTATING THE CHARTER. HE WAITS FOR APPLAUSE TO FINISH. DISCUSSES THE SUSPENDED STUDENTS AND THE HEARINGS AS UNFAIR. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING. HE ANNOUNCES THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT CANCEL THE SUSPENSIONS AND BOOS ARE HEARD. HE SAYS THEY WILL TAKE CONTROL AND FORCE THEM TO TAKE THE SUPSENSIONS AWAY. STRESSES GETTING THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE WHOLE STUDENT BODY ACROSS TO THE COLLEGE, COUNTY AND STATE. DESCRIBES THE BOLDRICK BILL, WHICH TAKES THE JURISDICTION OF STUDENT SUSPENSION AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL AND GIVES IT TO THE STATE. 01:21:32 - QUICK PAN OF AUDIENCE, APPLAUDING 01:21:54 - COLLEGE STUDENT DISCUSSES THE 60 STUDENTS SUSPENDED ON APRIL 16, 1969 AS A VIOLATION OF STUDENT CODE. DEMANDS THAT THE SDS CHARTER BE REINSTATED AND THAT STUDENT CONDUCT CODE BE FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER 01:22:34 - QUICK PAN OF AUDIENCE CHEERING AND CLAPPING, STANDING UP. CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON UPRAISED FIST AND ZOOMS OUT. WHISTLING 01:22:53 - STUDENT SPEAKER, STEVE, OUTLINES PROPOSALS. REQUESTS THAT STUDENT BODY WAIT UNTIL MONDAY FOR ANSWER TO SUSPENSIONS. AUDIENCE BOOS, SHOUTS NO. SPEAKER MAKES DISTINCTION BETWEEN BOYCOTT AND STRIKE. MENTIONS THE 20,000 STUDENTS RAPPING AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING. 01:24:01 - MAN GETS UP IN AUDIENCE AND TALKS (PARTIAL INAUDIBLE) ABOUT 7 OTHERS SUSPENDED. HECKLERS, REMINDERS NOT TO TURN IT INTO A SDS RALLY 01:24:23 - LS OF AUDIENCE, PACKED AUDITORIUM, SPEAKER OFF CAMERA DISCUSSES HEARINGS, APPLAUSE, CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON GIRLS 01:24:46 - BEARDED SPEAKER STANDS AND DISCUSSES BOYCOTT OF CLASSES, PICKET SIGNS, DISSATISFIED, SITS DOWN TO APPLAUSE 01:25:01 - REAR VIEW OF FEMALE STUDENT DEMANDS A DECISION NOW, AFTER 4 MEETINGS 01:25:18 - STUDENT SPEAKER STEVE, ASKS FOR DECISION 01:25:42 - STUDENT WITH LONG HAIR CALLS FOR A STRIKE, SITS DOWN. 01:26:04 - QUICK PANS OF DARKENED AUDIENCE 01:26:09 - MALE STUDENT DEMANDS THAT THEY START RAPPING, GET POINT OUT 01:26:27 - BLACK WOMAN ( ADMINISTRATOR) SPEAKS TO AUDIENCE ON MICROPHONE ABOUT INFORMING THOSE IN RESIDENCE HALLS AND VALIDATES THEIR POINTS, SHE LEAVES TO APPLAUSE 01:27:20 - CU OF MAN AT MICROPHONE MENTIONS PERMIT OF DEMONSTRATE. HECKLED BY AUDIENCE 01:27:58 - SPEAKER, STEVE, ANNOUNCES MARCH TODAY, RALLY AT 12 NOON ON MONDAY. IF SUSPENDED STUDENTS ARE NOT REINSTATED, HE CALLS FOR A BOYCOTT OR STRIKE. WILD CHEERING 01:28:26 - SPEAKER TRIES TO GET A VOTE, MENTIONS OTHER OPTIONS, SHAKES HEAD, PEOPLE SCREAMING, DISORDER. ANOTHER SPEAKER CALLS FOR VOTE AND MENTIONS THE 2000 PEOPLE AT MEETING. DISCUSSES WHERE FACULTY STANDS ON ISSUES. 01:29:37 - THE SPEAKERS TRY TO TAKE QUESTIONS, DISORGANIZED, ASKS FOR COMPROMISE. 01:30:06 - VIEW OF AUDIENCE WITH HANDS UP, VOTING 01:30:11 - ASKS FOR VOTE ON SECOND OPTION, QUICK PAN OF AUDIENCE WITH NO HANDS UP, THIRD OPTION DO NOTHING AND PAN BACK TO SPEAKERS AT PODIUM 01:30:33 - CONFUSION AT THE PODIUM, YELLING, VOTE ON BOYCOTT NOW AND STRIKE MONDAY. HANDS GO UP IN AUDIENCE 01:30:59 - SPEAKER, STEVE, ASKS AUDIENCE TO SIT AND LISTEN. INSISTS ON NON VIOLENCE AND A CALL FOR FIELD MARSHALLS 01:31:42 - FOOTAGE OF STUDENTS LEAVING AUDITORIUM, MOVING TOGETHER FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, CONGREGATING ON FIELD, RAINY GRAY DAY. PHOTOGRAPHER TAKING PICTURES 01:32:53 - HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS IN FIELD, LISTENING TO SPEECH, WHITE ARMBANDS TIED ON SLEEVES, TRYING TO ORGANIZE A MARCH TO THE HILL 01:33:13 - PHOTOGRAPHER IN YELLOW RAIN COAT 01:33:30 - MAN WITH BULL HORN TRIES TO LEAD MARCHERS, LINES OF MARCHERS ON CAMPUS SIDEWALKS, COUPLES HOLD HANDS, STUDENTS CARRY PAPERS, BRIEFCASES, BOOKS, UMBRELLAS. STUDENT THROWS UP PEACE SIGN, ALBINO STUDENT WITH BEARD MARCHES 01:34:29 - MARCHERS WALK TOWARDS CAMERA, MAN PLAYS HARMONICA, PEACE SIGN 01:34:43 - WET PARKING LOT OF LATE 1960S CARS 01:34:51 - LONG LINE OF MARCHERS WALKING ON CAMPUS, "PEACE BROTHER" HEARD 01:35:08 - DORMS WINDOW WITH GIRLS LOOKING OUT, BARRY SIGN IN WINDOW, "FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS " HEARD 01:35:15 - LS OF DORM BUILDING WITH MARCHERS IN FOREGROUND, VW BUG IN PARKING LOT 01:35:26 - TWO MALE STUDENTS STAND IN PARKING LOT LOOKING, RED MUSTANG, DELIVERY TRUCK 01:35:36 - COUPLES ARM IN ARM MARCH. 01:35:40 - LS OF OF MARCHERS, WET PARKING LOT, 1960S CARS, VW BEETLE 01:36:00 - EXTREEM LS OF CAMPUS BUILDINGS, SNAKES LIKE LINE OF MARCHERS. 01:36:40 - COUPLE SIT ON SIDEWALK WITH UMBRELLA OPEN, SMILING 01:36:46 - EXTREME LS OF CAMPUS AND LINE OF MARCHERS 01:37:07 - "OPEN IT UP OR SHUT IT DOWN" SIGN IN DORM WINDOW 01:37:12 - EXT OF DORM BUILDING 01:37:16 - MARCHERS SNAKING THROUGH CAMPUS, ROWDY, THROWING UP PEACE SIGNS, TURNING BACK TO LOOK AT CAMERA, HOLDING UP FISTS 01:38:57 - MS OF ALBINO STUDENT MARCHING, PEACE SIGN 01:39:07 - GIRLS ON ROOF OF DORM BUILDING, SIGNS IN DORM WINDOWS, GIRLS LOOKING OUT OF DORM WINDOWS 01:39:38 - FOOTAGE OF MARCHERS WALKING AWAY FROM CAMERA, UP HILL 01:39:48 - HOMEMADE SHEET BANNER HUNG FROM DORM WINDOW, "THE SDS CALLS THEM PIGS, WE CALL THEM SIR" BLOWING IN THE WIND 01:40:04 - LS OF CAMPUS AND MARCHERS MOVING UP HILL TO LIBRARY??, VW BUG PASSES BY 01:40:12 - END TAPE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1969
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-2503