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On May 4, 1970, four white students participating in a student antiwar demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by members of the National Guard.
“the rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the destruction of the very government which protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.”
― Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72
― Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72
“For some reason, a cache of thousands of rusting, leaking poisonous nerve-gas cylinders in Aniston, Alabama, does not scare anyone, but the suggestion of fission products stored a mile underground at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, causes great concern.”
― Atomic Accidents
― Atomic Accidents
“the thirty-eighth parallel, selected by the Americans and the Russians back in 1945 as the dividing line between the two Koreas, as a border at all.”
― The Coldest Winter
― The Coldest Winter
“Apart from the risk in the blackout of walking into a lamp-post, the greatest danger was being run down by a motorcar. In London, over 2,000 pedestrians were killed in the last four months of 1939.”
― The Second World War
― The Second World War
“So many books, so little time.”
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