Happening now in Texas - UT Austin - I'm now getting Kent State flashbacks.

[Barry Markson]

42. I was 20 in 1968, I remember it well.

1967 RayGun took office in California on a promise to restore law and order and clean up the state's colleges, of course that only hardened our resolve.
After fall quarter I dropped out of the University of Mn to join the "movement".
A group of us headed East to work for Mn Native son Eugene McCarthy in his bid to unseat the hated LBJ.
Come Clean for Gene. Shave, haircut and sorta nice Goodwill Store clothes.

LBJ drops out, MLK shot, RFK shot and protests continued unabated.

At the end of spring and summer we headed to the conventions.

1st week of August Miami Beach for the Nixon coronation. They closed the causeways and bridges and we couldn't get close. Nixon walked away spewing "Law and Order".

End of August Chicago. Major Daley promising "not in my town you don't". A police riot ensues on national tv and Humphrey makes his acceptance speech at 4 in the morning with the cameras focused on the street action and smell of teargas.

Nixon walked into the Whitehouse losing only MN and DC.

I get the same vibe.