A Minnesota PBS Initiative
We Wanted to Stay in College
Tom Ash, a student at St. Cloud State during part of the Vietnam War, vividly remembers a vote to shut down the school during the Cambodian Invasion. He also recalls the dramatic presidential election of 1968.
They called for a third vote and it just reverberated off the halls that we wanted to stay in college.
Tom's story was captured with the help of TPT's Minnesota Remembers Vietnam team.
Story Themes: 1968, Cambodian Campaign, Cambodian Incursion, College Campus, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Music, National Guard, Politics, Richard Nixon, Saint Cloud, SCSU, St Cloud, St. Cloud State, Stillwater Screening, Student Protest, Thomas Ash, Tom Ash
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