“TFHS Students Share ‘A Day of Concern’” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper

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After the United States invasion of Cambodia and the death of Kent State University students in May of 1970, it was not only on college and university campuses that anti-Vietnam War protest could be found. While college students struck against the war, students and school officials at the high school in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, a small mill town in Western Massachusetts, organized a teach-in to hear both critics and defenders of the Vietnam War. The interest of high school students is perhaps not surprising since young male graduates could be drafted into the military at age 18. University of Massachusetts faculty members were the speakers at the teach-in. Asserting that Congress should take back the war powers that it granted to the President with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Dr. Charles Burke said that “he was in favor of a government amendment that will prevent money from being appropriated for troop movement in Cambodia after a certain date and the same in Vietnam after 1970 without a declaration of war by Congress.” Other speakers at the teach-in defended the invasion of Cambodia.

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Item typePeriodicals
Newspaper
Article
AuthorKeller, Charlie
PublisherGreenfield Recorder
Date1970-05-13
PlaceTurners Falls, Massachusetts; Greenfield, Massachusetts
TopicCivil Rights, Protest, Dissent
Military, Wars, Battles
Politics, Government, Law, Civics
Education, Literacy
EraCounterculture, Civil Rights, and Cold War, 1946–1989
EventVietnam War. 1955–1975
MaterialPaper
Process/FormatPrinting
Dimension detailsProcess Material: printed paper, ink Height: 6.75 in Width: 5.75 in
Catalog #L06.045
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Keller, Charlie. “TFHS Students Share ‘A Day of Concern’.” Greenfield Recorder, May 13, 1970. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l06-045/. Accessed on November 10, 2024.

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