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Kent Affair

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
URGENTLY NEEDS YOUR
HELP. Over 10,380 members of
our campus signed a petition asking
President Nixon to convene a
federal grand jury on the Kent
State affair. (To date, only a local
grand jury; whose report was so
biased that a Federal District Court
Judge, upheld on October 22, by
the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of
Appeals, ordered it expunged from
the record and physically
destroyed; has weighed the
evidence.) Last Wednesday, Kent's
President, Dr. Glenn Olds, flew to
Washington and presented petitions
at the White House. He was assured
an answer by the end of November.

Our mammoth task now is to
get OTHER COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES to support our
petition. Would you please help us
by printing this letter and the
following petition in your paper?

Dear President Nixon:

We, the undersigned, support
the over 10,380 members of
Kent State University in
requesting you to convene a
federal grand jury to
investigate the Kent State
affair.

NAME ADDRESS

1.

2.

etc. Please return, by
November 22, to:

President of the Student
Body

Kent State University

Kent, Ohio 44242

We cannot adequately express
how important it is that members
of your campus circulate this
petition (we found that moving
about with it rather than merely
posting it got us over 10,000
signatures in ten days) and return it
to us by November 22. If we flood
Washington with petitions, the
President will be unable to ignore
the tremendous sentiment in the
country for a high level
investigation of the Kent affair.

Thank you in advance for your
cooperation in this urgent matter.