According to a 1975 New York Times article, the CIA had already been looking into Kitt since the 1950s. entertainment industry after her outburst upset the First Lady. Kitt told The Washington Post in 1978 that she was effectively blacklisted from the U.S. They don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam," said Kitt. They will take pot … and they will get high. efforts in Vietnam transformed from support and advice to full-scale war. “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed,” Kitt told the First Lady, whose husband, President Johnson, had overseen the U.S. Perhaps the most famous example of this was legendary actress and singer Eartha Kitt’s famous January 1968 confrontation with first lady, Lady Bird Johnson at the White House during a luncheon that was supposed to be about juvenile delinquency. Some celebrities of the era were also quite vocal about their opposition to U.S. Helmreich took the opportunity to delve into the goals and methods of the scholars’ strike–to explain that it was not motivated by a desire to get out of writing papers and taking exams–the Wheaton community chose to intentionally focus their attention and mental acuities on the problems of the war and the military reprisal against student demonstrations at Kent State.Īll materials related to Wheaton’s 1970 strike are available online in the Kent State University Special Collections and Archives’ Kent State Shootings Digital Archive.Students weren’t the only ones to get involved in the anti-war movement. Professor Paul Helmreich was chosen by the graduating class to speak on the subject, despite the fact that a speaker had already been chosen. Faculty were given the option of marking grades as incomplete or allowing students to self-schedule exams.Ĭommencement was held on the afternoon of May 30, 1970. Classes were canceled, sit-ins and lectures were arranged, and students pamphleted the local supermarket. All “normal academic activities” were suspended.
Faculty, in support of the students, voted 52-21 to go on strike with them. Wheaton students, along with college students across the country, mobilized against the Vietnam War on May 5, 1970.
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