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One week later, however, John Thomson, a nonstudent who had been active in radical political circles in New York City and who had moved to Berkeley after the Free Speech Movement wandered onto campus holding a 5 by 8 inch piece of notebook paper in front of his chest. On the paper he had written the word "Fuck." He sat on the Student Union steps, near the street.
A Berkeley city policeman caught sight of the boy and the sign from his police car as he turned the corner. He reported a violation of obscenity laws, stressing the visibility of the sign to pedestrians and vehicles at least fifty feet away. Notified of the violation, campus police came out to arrest the sign bearer. That was March 3. . . .
On March 9, after news accounts had noted that both faculty committees declined to handle the case, Edwin Carter, chairman of the Board of Regents, called President Clark Kerr. Although no record was kept of the conversation, Kerr apparently understood Carter to be giving him an ultimatum, ordering him to expel the students immediately. Kerr was quite upset. To him this apparent fiat raised not only the issues of due process for the students and of nonintervention by the president's office in campus affairs, but also—and more serious—the issue of meddling by the Regents in the daily operation of the university.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html
March 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins as over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. Scheduled to last eight weeks, Rolling Thunder will instead go on for three years. . . .
March 8, 1965 - The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam.
March 9, 1965 - President Johnson authorizes the use of Napalm, a petroleum based anti-personnel bomb that showers hundreds of explosive pellets upon impact.
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