KENNEDY AND KENT STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00027R000100020003-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 10, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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Marty Kurta, 21, a senior
n political science at Kent
State and president of the
medical fund-raising drive,
said the confrontation with
National Guardsmen "has
changed my head forever. I
know I'll never forget. It'll
have a direct bearing on
what I'll be about. I'm much
closer to people, and I want
to spread love."
? Jim Russell, 23, Pitts-
burgh, who has a scar on his
temple from a bullet graze
and another on his leg, said
he went to "talk and talk
with a minister friend" after
the shootings. "I didn't know,
what to do. Now I still look
at the scars, sure, but I
want to forget it.
"I can't keep dwelling on
the details." He graduated
in June and now has a part-
time job, "until I figure out
what to do."
Leroy Holmes, Corning,
N.Y., and a senior in socio-
logy at Kent State, said
about the school's Sept. 29
opening which has been the
topic of some concern: "Of
course there is an overtone
of pessimism on some fronts,
but I think the hard core of
students is committed to
opening school and keeping
it open. We just won't sit
back."
(Most of the crowd was
from Kent State; Jackson
State opens Monday.)
Holmes and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Holmes
Sr., were among those pos-
ing for Instamatic pictures
with Sen. Kennedy, whose
wife, Joan, he said, "is up in
Massachusetts, campaigning
up there."
Holmes Sr., an employee
of the Corning Glass Co.,
and Mrs. Holmes were
among a number of adults
who said they came to the
fund-raiser "because we are
concerned about our chil-
dren."
? "I think what happened at
Kent State will be on the
students' minds when school
opens, and rightly so. Some-
one will have to answer for
what happened," said the
elder Holmes.
Mrs. Brian Sanders, Be-
thesda, a 1956 graduate of
Kent State, said she came
"because I am concerned
about what is happening. It's
hard to believe that 15 years
ago the wildest thing on
campus was a panty raid."
Mrs. Jack L. Carney, Ak-
ron, Ohio, said she made the
trip "partly out of curiosity
and partly because I come
from a solid belt of hard
hats. I want to know what's
going on in the rest of the
country, what people are
thinking about and what
they're saying about the
Kent State killings.
"A lot of people are
standing around at cocktail
parties and saying the
deaths were justified. I
don't think they were. I
think kids need as many
adults as they can get to
listen to them."
The lights and sound sys-
tem went out midway
through the evening, but
none of the mainly , under
30 crowd seemed to mind.
Among the guests were
Rep. and Mrs. J. William
Stanton (R-Ohio), D.C. City
Council Chairman and Mrs.
Gilbert Hahn and former
Washington Redskins play-
er Bobby Mitchell.
As Sen. Kennedy said,
"This is a student party.
They arranged it all."
And as New Yorker Jack
Corliss, who will be a senior
in urban problems at Kent
State, put it: "It certainly
wasn't Much fun, really.
But who could think It
would be?"
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TEMBER 10, 1970
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By Frank Johnston?The Washington Post
Kent State student Torn Grace shows his injured ankle to Sen. Kennedy.
Kennedy and Kent State
By Margaret Crimmins
If any of the hundreds
who went to the Edward
M. Kennedy house last night
expected a rousing, gala
party loaded with Beautiful
People types, they had to be
disappointed.
Instead of long, black
limousines in the Kennedys'
circular driveway, there
were blue-and-yellow buses
marked "Kent State Univer-
sity." Sen. Kennedy stood
up in the area of his chil-
dren's swing set and talked
about the Kent State Medic-
al Fund's goal of $65,000 to
assist in paying medical ex-
penses for both Kent (Ohio)
State University students
injured May 4 in confronta-
tion with National Guards-
men and Jackson (Miss.)
State University students in-
jured May 14 in confronta-
tions with state and local
police.
According to a Kennedy
aide, one student from each
of the universities is para-
lyzed, probably for life.
(Four students from Kent
and two from Jackson were
killed.)
Warner Buxton, president
of the Jackson State student
government association, ask-
ed the audience to "Care.
The country needs people
who care. We cannot survive
among hatred a n d hypoc-
risy."
TWenty-year-old Tom
Grace got around the Ken-
nedy estate on crutches. He
said he was shot in the
ankle at Kent State. "I
think it's permanently im-
paired."
Singer Gordon Lightfoot
sang "Many are the dead
men, too silent to be real"
and a number of students
just sat on the ground and
listened quietly. There were
two busloads of students
from Kent and a number
who hitchhiked, drove and
flew in from various parts of
the country.
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