Fonda led demonstrators to the home of UNM’s president the day after the killings at Kent State.Students spoke of a strike in which they would take over the campus.Gov. Gen. John Jolly of the National Guard claimed nothing was so clear-cut.“Anybody can paint letters on a camera,” Jolly said in 1970.His was one of many ridiculous statements about the bayonet attacks.In another, the National Guard would say John Dressman, whose femoral artery was cut, had been injured by falling into a rosebush.Dressman, a 22-year-old teacher from Santa Fe, was a visitor at UNM, not a demonstrator.Guardsmen stabbed 11 people in all. Some say this was because a container of tear gas had been released by accident.“I guess they were trying to chase the crowd off the mall,” he said this week.Focused on covering the news, Norlander didn’t feel any pain when guardsmen stabbed him in the chest and left arm.“I didn’t realize I’d been stabbed until I felt blood going down my arm,” he said.Norlander’s other wound was on the left side of his sternum. That irritation boiled over on July 4, 1970, when hippies and park authorities clashed in Stoneman Meadow. The Albuquerque area was settled the Tiwa people beginning around 1250. The violence at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970, echoed across the world. On the 50th anniversary of these events, this program examines the student strike that was organized at the University of New Mexico, where 11 people were bayoneted by the New Mexico National Guard on "Bloody Friday," May 8, 1970.The documentary combines rare, archival KUNM news stories with contemporary interviews of veterans of the 1970 UNM strike. Officers were inclined to let the students remain in the building Friday and even over the weekend.

As a result, the park began refusing entrance to youths, especially those with long hair or vans. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Students walking along the University of New Mexico mall, east of the Student Union Building, might not realize that on May 8, 1970 … Image provided by: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM

David Cargo, an affable Republican in his second two-year term, activated the National Guard.

It started Sunday in a city park where hundreds of almost naked hippies and hundreds of … A jury in Albuquerque sided with the National Guard and the politicians.Norlander did not join the lawsuit.

Please enter your name.The E-mail message field is required. Most of the victims carried cameras.Unlike Kent State, no one died at UNM.


Protests and riots surged across the country and on UNM’s campus.

On May 8, ten days after Nixon announced the Cambodian invasion (and 4 days after the Kent State shootings), 100,000 protesters gathered in Washington and another 150,000 in San Francisco.For the most part, however, the protests were peaceful — if often tense. [City commission chairperson Charles BARNHARDT - says rioting not caused by organized group; 2,000 armed men ready to quell additional disturbances.] We were part of a small group of students who spent every spare moment in the art room,” York said.A year after graduating from high school, Krause, 19, was one of the four students shot to death by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State.Krause was a demonstrator against the Vietnam War, but she posed no threat to the soldiers.
Maybe the demonstrators would tire and go home.This tactic didn’t win over administrators of the university. Becknell founded the program in the throes of national unrest in 1969 and 1970.

Center for Regional Studies.\" ; # University of New Mexico. Allison Krause became one of York’s classmates in Silver Spring, Md.“I met Allison during the high school art classes that we shared. On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia as necessary to victory in the Vietnam War, spurring protests at 350 colleges. There was a problem saving your notification. The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. In a decision meant to end the war in Vietnam from a supposed position of strength, on April 31 st, 1970, Nixon ordered the invasion of Cambodia on the pretext of communist supply lines and troop movements through the Cambodian side of the jungle. Phone: 505-277-2451 Fax: 505-277-6023 email: history@unm.edu

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