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Lois Greenfield. Daniel Ezralow & David Parson. 1983
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Lois Greenfield. Daniel Ezralow & David Parson. 1983
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A couple days after Kent State Massacre 1970, a group of high school and college students who in New York City were apart of the anti war organizations, decided to do a vigil for the students at Kent State. A construction union decided to go down there and confront them(students). The construction union was lead by a number of really intensely right wing pieces of shit, who used their positions as union bosses to send the construction workers and inflame their emotions and send their construction workers down there. The construction workers went down there with their american flags and their helmets and beat the shit out of all these kids. Threw them through windows. There were dozens of people seriously injured. And this was called the Hard Hat Riot. Over the next days, Richard Nixon was photographed with a hard hat in the oval office. And said, 'that the working class of america had finally stood up to these ungrateful anti war kids, who basically deserve what they got'.
Historian David Parson on the Revolutionary Left Radio: The Vietnam War
The Hard Hat Riot of 1970 and the parallel to Trumpism today
I think you're right to locate Kennedy(JFK) as a big figure on the acceleration of the Vietnam war. And I think its a hard thing to get around, its a hard thing for people to square with the image of Kennedy, it's like the image of Obama, as this kind of benevolent guy who you want to go hang out with. He's very mannered. That's a part of it, right? These are ruling class men that were educated at Harvard so how could they be brutal? How could they be violent? How could they be these bloody monsters? Because their from Harvard? That's something we got to get over as a culture. JFK's culpability in this [Vietnam War Crimes] is pretty large.
Historian David Parson guest on the Revolutionary Left Radio: Vietnam War
Lois Greenfield. David Parson & Daniel Ezralow. 1982
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