Further Tragedy Averted

Immediately after the shootings, hundreds of people reassembled in protest at the Victory Bell. When the Guard made clear that protestors had to move, they staged a sit-in on the slope facing the Commons behind Stopher-Johnson Hall. Faculty marshal Glenn Frank blocked an advance on the sit-in by General Canterbury and troops from the front and by Major Jones and troops from the back. In anguish, Frank begged the students to disperse, warning that otherwise the troops would move in and it could only be a slaughter. The students quietly followed Glenn Frank across the Commons, while faculty marshal Mike Lunine told them that Martin Luther King would not have stayed because to win, they had to live.

Kent, Ohio · United States