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Yeah, yeah, I am impressed. Linda Gallagher. Linda Gallagher. Well, I was sitting at my desk and I'd say about 15 Negroes came in and I asked them if I could help them, and they said no and they started standing around the office and kind of milling

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around and they start. They started to walk over to Jim's office and I walked over there and I said, Can I help you? And the guy said, No. And I said, Do you want to see someone in particular? And they said, Kind of mumbled and went

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up and said, We want to see the editor Well, Jim was on the phone. I went into the office and I said, Jim, something's going on. I'm gonna lock your door. So I locked it, but it didn't lock. Then I came back and a few more

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came in and I kept saying, you know, would you like to sit down or something? And they said, No. And I said, Well, if you want to see Jim, tell me and I'll tell him and they said no. So a couple of minutes went by and

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they walked into Tim's office, seen them before I don't know who any of them were by name. Are they student? I'm sure someone else. Yeah. If I two of members, clubs on campus and Chris Chris was getting into come in, did they give you any reason

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why they were here? Okay. And stated. What's your speculation? Right? We have no idea. No, I've imagine, as the Gator taken a hard line. Great. Make them? Uh huh. No, None that it's evidence. No happened. And we're trying to find out from people who might have

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leads in there. And evidently, nobody knows Another person was down to a new organization on campus trying to find out what's going on. And evidently, there's a lot going on down there, but nobody's talking, so I don't know. Thanks very much. Uh, I'm not going to

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go Mhm. Not everyone. Mhm. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How are you? Yeah. Mhm. Mm. I get it. Okay. On the for the Yeah. Yeah. You think maybe it's a lot of little things that the building 20. Well, being a in the newspaper

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or being a what the Black Student Union calls a white newspaper, they don't want to be treated. Uh, for example, the other newspaper on campus Open process the other day put a verbatim press release from the B s. You in the paper instead of having the

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reporter interpret, uh, from interviews and press releases and so forth, Uh, like we have technical problems up here that prohibit us from how should I say, uh, putting stories into the paper in the exact way we wanted. For example, things will get cut, essential ideas, quotes.

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Uh, sometimes stories will appear on days one or two days later than they should have seen. All these things kind of can pile up, But as far as a specific incidents for this particular kind of riot up here, uh, I really don't know. I was in

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class at the time. It must have been something from last week because I don't think that they were here in time to read today's paper, which had a story about the B s. U uh, really, uh, because they were up, The paper comes out about 10

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or five past 10, and they were up here at 10 past 10. So I don't think we have time to look at The paper. Must have been something from last week Have the BS You? The black students union, complained before about the treatment they have received

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in your paper. Several times they complained to me because since I'm the guy that covers them, uh, consistently and also to the editor, Jim Vasko, they had Jim and I down last Tuesday at a press conference, Uh, which culminated in a story that appeared in today's

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paper. Uh, it was it was just a sort of thing for them to give us information us to copy it down enough to put it in the paper, which we did. There was no indication that they were mad at us at that time. They had been

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always irritated at our stories after they appeared. They wanted, for example, to have a black students union member to write, to write the stories for the gate. Or rather than having a staff member do it, this kind of stuff, that's pretty significant. That's good fun. What

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do you want to know? 30 seconds. What do you say you want to? I was I'm a I'm a reporter at the examiners, you know, and I'm a part time lecturer in journalism here I was coaching a student at the copy desk on about 10 15.

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We both saw a large group of Negroes about 10 or 12 to 15 come in. They looked very nervous and apprehensive, but I didn't really expect anything would come of it, because in the past, nothing ever had. And there was a commotion in the inside office

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of Jim Vasko and I stood up and went over to see what was happening. And I found myself in the middle of the escape route from the you might call it. There was evidently there have been some fighting in there, and all these guys came pouring

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out and started hitting everybody inside, tipping over tables, knocking over typewriters, and, uh, they put up my hands and said, What's all this about? Why are you hitting me? And I don't know. And so my glasses, uh, fell off, and I reached down to pick them

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up, and, uh, and somebody just missed hitting me, and for some reason, that led me around. So I started hitting them, and it's a big fight, and the upshot of it is now your fingers broken and you still don't know why they were hitting it. I

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still don't. I hope. I hope the finger was broken in a good cause, Uh, Johnny Key and the SportsCenter was taking on a number of people, and, uh, most of the kids were just not resisting. We're just trying to get rid of it. It was evident

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that it was a planned event. I think it wasn't something spontaneous. Thanks. Thanks. Glenn. There is none. Yeah, you know, bathroom. Is he still in? You know, the only thing that I know is that Dad, Dean, summer skills, offices taking, giving out all information and talking

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to all reporters and everything. Can we talk to Jim? And I know this is Mrs Hart crashed off all of a sudden, they were fighting. They took, evidently just grabbed him out of his chair and started beating them up. And I was talking to the city

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editor on the phone. I screamed and started reading, and Lynn Ludlow, who was one of our advisors, ran to help Jim, and about four of them jumped on Lynn and Lynn threw up his hands and said, What's going on? And then they started really beating them

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up. And I'm standing over here by the sink and then the rest of the staff. The boys got up, help them, and they just start beating everybody up. Then they started throwing typewriters. I came over here by my desk and they picked up my typewriter and

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threw it on the floor. And then I grabbed the phone to call the campus security. They grabbed the phone and it ended up, and then, for some unknown reason, they just