Week of May 15, 1970

More campus violence

- In Jackson Ms - Two

male students are

killed and 10 injured

after police open fire

on the all-black

campus of Jackson

State College. Police

had been called to the

campus shortly before

midnight after reports

of rocks and bottles

being thrown at cars

passing through the

campus area.

South Vietnamese ground troops have crossed into Laos and are striking the

enemy on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Israeli warplanes attack and sink an Egyptian destroyer and missile boat on the

Red Sea.

President Nixon expresses sympathy in the death of two black Mississippi

students by police gunfire and calls for greater “restraint and compassion” from

all Americans.

President Nixon reports that a drop in tax revenues has lessened his hopes for a

balanced budget this and next year. A $1.8 billion deficit is expected.

Federal reserve chairman Arthur Burns suggests that the White House move

directly to hold down wage and price increases and proposes new taxes if there

is a budget shortfall (there is).

A fourth grade girl wrote a letter to President Nixon complaining she could “smell

the sewage” when she went on a hike. And she criticized the antiballistic missile

and the Vietnam War. The reply came from the Department of Health, Education

and Welfare and read this way - “Pay attention to your own learning activities

and let the President take care of decisions on national and international affairs.”

The letter was written as part of a class project.

House Speaker John McCormack announces he would not seek reelection.

Week of May 15, 1970

The cost of living goes up .6% in April.

A search of dormitory rooms vacated after four Kent State University students

were shot to death, turn-up a number of guns, knives and drugs. Kent state has

been closed since the May 4 shootings - which climaxed a violent campus

antiwar protest. The campus is scheduled to reopen June 22.

The four Kent State University students killed in a campus demonstration May 4

were struck by military-type bullets, according to a coroner.

Drunk driving device - General Motors unveils a device called a physiological

tester - a drunk driver tester. The device will use a spot on the car dashboard

about the size of a radio. Still in development, when a driver turns on the ignition,

the device will flash a series of random numbers, which change everytime it’s

turned on. The driver will have six seconds to push a series of numbers in the

same order. If he is right, the engine will start.

Dallas - About 50 persons, including singer Pat Boone, Texas Lt. Gov. Ben

Barnes and several Dallas Cowboys football players are evacuated from the

speaker’s platform at an anti-drug rally in the Cotton Bowl after officials received

a bomb threat.

A painting of a can of Campbell’s vegetable

beef soup by Pop artist Andy Warhol is

auctioned for a record $60,000 to a

European bidder who wished to remain

anonymous. It is the highest price ever paid

for work by a living American artist. Warhol’s

painting of the soup can, called “Campbell’s

Soup Can With Peeling Label,” is

72x54inches and was painted in 1962.

Sports -

Quarterback Terry Bradshaw of the

Pittsburgh Steelers - pro football’s No. 1

draft choice, undergoes minor surgery. He’ll

have a calcium deposit removed from his

right thigh. The Louisiana Tech star pulled a

hamstring muscle during the North-South

Shrine game in Miami on Christmas day.

Week of May 15, 1970

Hank Aaron joins eight Hall of Famers in baseball’s 3000-hit club this week. He

header from the Braves.

In a Dodger game against the Giants, a foul ball hits 14-year-old Alan Fish in the

head above the left ear. After taking tow aspirins at the stadium first aid station,

he went back to his seat to watch the rest of the game. He went home, but was

brought to a hospital and where he lapsed into a coma and died.

Entertainment news -

The movie MASH wins the International Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival.

(84)- Best known for her

portrayal as the nice Witch of

the East on the movie “Wizard

of Oz.”

Playing in Las Vegas -

Caesars Palace

Sergio Franchi, Myron Cohen -

Flamingo

Diana Ross - Frontier

Bobby Darin - Landmark

Englebert Humperdinck -

Riviera

Jack Benny - Sahara

Television news -

Screen Gems initiates a policy

of hiring a certain number of

minority student writers from the writer’s Guild. Two will help write a “Bewitched”

episode.

David Canary requests a release from “Bonanza.” He’s been on the show for

three years.

Tour Capital Hill - Buddy Ebsen, Max Baer, Irene Ryan and Donna Douglas

receive a guided tour from their congressman - Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. They’re

in town to film two “Beverly Hillbillies.”

ABC says it will involve real teenage drug addicts in “One Life to Live.” Look out.

Week of May 15, 1970

Monday night television -

CBS - Gunsmoke, Here’s Lucy, Mayberry RFD, Doris Day show, Carol Burnett,

Merv Griffin

NBC - My World and Welcome To It, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, NBC

Monday Night at the Movies, Tonight

ABC - It Takes a Thief, Movie, Now Dick Cavett

It Takes A Thief - Monday is assigned to obtain a fortune in plutonium.

Laugh-In - Ringo Starr is in comedy bits!

Now - About the loss of one man in Vietnam and what it means to his

community.

Merv Griffin - Sandler and Young.

Carr.

At the movies -

Airport

Paint Your Wagon

Patton

Bullitt

Goodbye Mr. Chips

The Adventurers

The Games

Jenny - Marlo Thomas

Liberation of L.B. Jones

Brotherly Love - Peter O’Toole