Channel: David Hoffman

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Description: The time was 1968. Winter. At the University of Connecticut. This was an extraordinary year in the USA. Hundreds of college campuses in the United States had rebel groups attempting to block normal campus activities, to change the curriculum, to gain more more powerful students, to deal with civil rights, women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and more. Often times the protests were peaceful. A fair amount of times they were not. This battle which took place at the University of Connecticut in Storrs Connecticut, started about something so insignificant. Fortunately, documentary filmmakers where there with 16mm cameras and audio gear. Did the students perform for the cameras? Not really. Most people didn't know enough about what they would look like on film to perform. But they were following in the footsteps of what they had seen happening at Berkeley, Madison Wisconsin, Columbia University, Boston, where student protests gathered more and more participants and became more and more aggressive. And this wasn't just happening on college campuses. In 1968, the streets of most major cities in the United States were filling with hippies, acid heads, political radicals, increasingly volatile civil rights advocates, and others. Those who were there at that time as I was, filming just about every day, saw an increased level of hostility and aggression and violence on the streets. Kent State where students actually were shot and killed reduced this increasing level of tension between college administrators and students. When that spring session was over, most college students just left their campuses and went home. To support my efforts to create more clips like this one please donate to me at patreon.com/allinaday.