June 1970 News Today

Few days ago. its planning honor america day in washington on july 4th. a series of patriotic activities highlighted by a mass rally and fireworks display in the evening at the washington monument. although the committee is using crayons and scrap paper for signs, its being directed by executives who wear expensive business suits and shiny cuff links. the chairman of the executive committee is jay willard marriott, 69-year-old owner of the hoand restaurant chain. a friend of president nixons, an...

Her imperfections. we hope honor america day will unify us fundamentally in our belief in our wonderful nation. so this is mid-june, 1970. mid-june. nixon has had this terrible spring, expanding the vietnam war, mass rejection of the expansion of the vietnam war. he had run for president saying he had a plan to end the war. now here he is expanding it. having been caught expanding it, here he is explaining why he did so and not persuading anyone. theyre killing students who are protesting agains...

War into cambodia, but that was nixon making this primetime public address, basically retroactively asking for a public blessing of that expansion of the war. he did not get that public blessing. within a week of that speech, national guard troops were shooting live ammunition at a student anti-war protest in ohio. four students shot dead in kent state less than a week after that speech. 11 days after kent state, two more student protesters shot dead at jackson state in mississippi. another 12 s...

Shooting live ammunition at a student anti-war protest in ohio. four students shot dead in kent state less than a week after that speech. 11 days after kent state, two more student protesters shot dead at jackson state in mississippi. another 12 students were wounded by gunfire there. that was may 1970. by june 1970, the nixon administration had started casting about for some sort of public gambit to try to reclaim the narrative, to try to change the story. and in june 1970, they hit upon an ide...