The Kent State shootings set off the a largest anti-war demonstrations in Virginia Commonwealth University's history... The entire campus from Monroe Pral to the east to Harrison Street to the wset between Park and Grace was nuthin' but a student takeover... It was the most memorable couple weeks of my life...

I was the "rector" of the Radical Student Union and I had my hand full juggling permits, PA syetems, PR and even booting out a couple of FBI plants who wanted to "torch" the presdient's house (VCU's Warren Brandt)... We had rock bands playin' every night for days upon end and speakers and marches and, and, and...

If anything, Kent State breathed new life into the anti-war movement because people, like my Nixon Republican father, joined in the movement...

But it's hard to believe that it has been 40 years...

Geeze, I'm gettin' old...

B~