Governor's Day Records

 Collection
Identifier: AC 0078
The Governor's Day Records include announcements, flyers, and posters distributed during Governor's Day, May 5, 1970, including a flyer for a silent vigil in memory of the four students killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in Ohio.

Dates

  • 1970

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials used on-site; advance notice suggessted. Access to parts of collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)

Additional Description

Overview

Governor's Day was an annual occasion for honoring ROTC cadets. In 1970, the event was scheduled the same week that American troops went into Cambodia and four unarmed student protestors were killed by National Guard troops at Kent State University in Ohio. University of Nevada students who opposed the war in Vietnam held a peace rally the same day as Governor's Day, distributing flyers and posters on campus announcing the rally and opposition to the Governor's Day observances. The collection includes announcements, flyers, and posters distributed during Governor's Day, May 5, 1970.

Biographical / Historical

Governor's Day was an annual occasion for honoring ROTC cadets. In 1970, the event was scheduled the same week that American troops went into Cambodia and four unarmed student protestors were killed by National Guard troops at Kent State University in Ohio. University of Nevada students who opposed the war in Vietnam held a peace rally the same day as Governor's Day, distributing flyers and posters on campus announcing the rally and opposition to the Governor's Day observances. The rally was also called a student strike against the war of Vietnam and Cambodia. The rally became a march toward the stadium where the ROTC military review was being held. The students marched into the stadium and filed into the bleachers shouting anti-war slogans, and some went onto the field and threatened to disrupt the cadet drill. N. Edd Miller, University President, asked for calm and courtesy. Some faculty members and students joined the rank of the protestors, urging restraint. The episode ended without violence. On May 7, however, the ROTC building on campus was fire-bombed. On May 12, the Hobbit Hole, a student residence and meeting place for anti-war activists, was fire-bombed.

Arrangement

Arranged without hierarchy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Paul Strickland in 1980.

Related Materials

AC 0020: Governor's Day Papers; AC 0403: Paul S. Adamian Papers; AC 0061: Governor's Day Records; NUB 24/0651-NUB 24/06/58: Governor's Day protest, Paul Adamian; AC 0209: James W. Hulse Papers; Lucas, Brad. Radicals, Rhetoric and the War: the University of Nevada in the wake of Kent State [LD3763 .L83 2006]

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Governor's Day Records
Status
completed
Author
Betty Glass
Date
August 2010
Description rules
dacs

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the University of Nevada, Reno. University Archives Repository

https://library.unr.edu/SpeColl
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