{"id":5702,"date":"2017-12-05T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2023-08-07T01:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:36:31","slug":"50-years-ago-today-a-campus-in-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/05\/50-years-ago-today-a-campus-in-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago Today; A Campus in Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By David McCartney, University Archivist<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/05\/50-years-ago-today-a-campus-in-conflict\/di1967-12-06-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/di1967-12-06-1-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/di1967-12-06-1-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/di1967-12-06-1-768x1046.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/di1967-12-06-1-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/di1967-12-06-1-640x871.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/di1967-12-06-1.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, December 5, marks the 50-year anniversary of what was to that date the largest anti-war protest on the UI campus. Over 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Iowa Memorial to protest the presence of Dow Chemical representatives who were on campus to interview prospective employees. There were 18 arrests and the day\u2019s events ushered in a new era of protest, both locally and nationally. Less than four months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson, citing eroding public support for his administration\u2019s policy on Vietnam, announced he would not seek re-election to another term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go here (<a href=\"http:\/\/dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu\/DI\/1967\/di1967-12-06.pdf\">http:\/\/dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu\/DI\/1967\/di1967-12-06.pdf<\/a>) for the Daily Iowan\u2019s account of that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day\u2019s events were filmed and recorded by Robert Coover, an assistant professor of English, whose documentary is featured on our online exhibit, \u201cUptight and Laid-back: Iowa City in the 1960s.\u201d To view the film in the online exhibit, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/dsps.lib.uiowa.edu\/sixties\/\">https:\/\/dsps.lib.uiowa.edu\/sixties\/<\/a>, scroll to videos, and click \u2018On a Confrontation in Iowa City.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or see below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On A Confrontation In Iowa City\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uA5DRsrIxiw?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David McCartney, University Archivist Tuesday, December 5, marks the 50-year anniversary of what was to that date the largest anti-war protest on the UI campus. 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There were 18 arrests and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/05\/50-years-ago-today-a-campus-in-conflict\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;50 Years Ago Today; A Campus in Conflict&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[338,204,479,480],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}