Well put Bart. When I said above that after Kent State, things were never the same, that is exactly what I meant. It got to be a lot harder to enlist those masses that were always so available before. Although at times it was their over-enthusiastic presence which led to problems, it was the numbers which mattered. Even though many of the students involved at Kent State were not protesters of any sort, KSU and JSU clearly spoke of what the government could bring to bear.

Today's headline in the "Columbus Dispatch" quoted the line of then governor James Rhodes: "No one plans a train wreck." Perhaps not, but from all sides, it was a wreck waiting to happen.

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