Jeffrey Glenn Miller, March 28, 1950 - May 4, 1970
Sandra Lee Scheuer, August 11, 1949 - May 4, 1970
William Knox Schroeder, July 20, 1950 - May 4, 1970
Allison Beth Krause, April 23, 1951 - May 4, 1970
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
On this day in 1970: The US National Guard opened fire on a Vietnam War protest at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four unarmed students and wounding eleven more.
Today’s victims:
Killed:
Jeffrey Glenn Miller; age 20; shot through the mouth; killed instantly
Allison B. Krause; age 19; fatal left chest wound; died later that day
William Knox Schroeder; age 19; fatal chest wound; died almost an hour later in a hospital while undergoing surgery
Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20; fatal neck wound; died a few minutes later from loss of bloodWounded:
Joseph Lewis Jr.; hit twice in the right abdomen and left lower leg
John R. Cleary; upper left chest wound
Thomas Mark Grace; struck in left ankle
Alan Michael Canfora; hit in his right wrist
Dean R. Kahler; back wound fracturing the vertebrae, permanently paralyzed from the chest down
Douglas Alan Wrentmore; hit in his right knee
James Dennis Russell; hit in his right thigh from a bullet and in the right forehead by birdshot, both wounds minor
Robert Follis Stamps; hit in his right buttock
Donald Scott MacKenzie; neck woundToday’s soundtrack: “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and “Where Was Jesus in Ohio?” by Bruce Springsteen
Today’s book club: Harlan Ellison’s ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW and Allen Ginsberg’s 1975 poem “Hadda be Playin’ on a Jukebox”
Today’s ill-advised quote: “I’d like to offer my condolences to those families. But Nixon can’t.” — Richard M. Nixon
President Bush turns to watch live coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center while at Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, Sept. 11, 2001
US Navy nurse caring for injured man, Saigon, 1966.
March 22, 1933: Dachau concentration camp opens.
Dachau concentration camp, located in the southern German state of Bavaria, was completed and opened less than two months after Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor or Germany, making it the earliest built of the Nazi concentration camps. The construction of Dachau took place amidst the Nazis’ consolidation of power in the German government (and very soon over all aspects of German life), and its initial purpose was to suppress any potential opponents of the new regime - political prisoners, often communists and social democrats. Later, the camp’s prisoner population came to include common criminals and religious dissidents; in 1935, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals arrived as prisoners to Dachau; in 1938, after the annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland, 11,000 Jews were deported to the camp; and throughout the war, more prisoners from all across Europe came to Dachau. In 1939 its prisoners were relocated to Buchenwald, but by 1944 thousands of people had been packed together into this overcrowded, disease-ridden camp.
As the first camp to be established by the Nazis, Dachau served as the model for later concentration camps and a testing ground for techniques that would be used at those other sites. Theodor Eicke was made commandant of the camp in June of 1933, and it was he more than anyone who devised the system and regulations of Dachau and most later Nazi camps. His Lagerordnung served as the camps’ disciplinary code, laying out the various punishments, ranging from hard time to flogging to death, to be doled out to prisoners who violated dress codes or attempted to agitate revolt. Although distinct from the extermination camps of Poland, whose main purpose was to kill as many people as possible as efficiently as possible, Dachau claimed thousands of lives due to poor sanitation, starvation, overworking, outbreaks of typhus, and other factors.
Dachau, its subsidiary camps, and the approximately 60,000 people imprisoned within them were liberated in April of 1945 by American soldiers, who, after seeing the horrific conditions of the camps and the railroad cars piled high with bodies, killed a number of German guards. In May, the 7,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) who had been forced by their guards on a death march to Tegernsee were also liberated.
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Forty years ago today, now-Senator John McCain was released from a Vietnamese prison along with 107 of his fellow prisoners. He had been held there — often in solitary confinement — for five-and-a-half years and grievously tortured as a prisoner of war, March 14, 1973. (x)
Highway 13, convoy.
President Gerald R. Ford Walking away from the Lincoln Sculpture after Laying a Wreath at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Wreath Laying Ceremony, 02/12/1975
The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid on February 12, 1914, Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. A little more than eight years later it was completed and dedicated on May 30, 1922 with Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln attending the ceremony.
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Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys as a symbol of respect, at the 1970 World Cup that was tainted by racism.
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In the rear.
The winner of the 1945 Miss America pageant, 21-year-old Bess Myerson of New York — the first Jewish woman to win the crown.
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VC POW with American soldier
