Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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SEYMOUR HERSH Saying that the press has been overrated, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh expounded his personal philosophies as well as experiences of working on such major stories as foreign and domestic spyings by the CIA, Watergate and most notably the My Lai Massacre when he spoke to a sparce DA audience in Decem- ber. Hersh, who was presented by the Ideas and Issues Committee, said that journalists are not the new heroes the public makes them out to be. If this were so, he says, Americans would have known about Watergate while it was going on instead of two years later. The press only presents the problems, they do not solve them, nor should they, he said. The problem lies in the individual American to change the complexion of Congress where it really matters. Hersh, an investigative reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, has covered the Paris peace talks and was one of the few members of the establishment press to travel to Hanoi. He is also the author of My Lai 4, Coverup ' and Chemical and Biological Warfare. 21

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WHO KILLED JFK? Nov. 22, 1963 was a beautiful sunny day in Dallas, Texas. A particularly good turnout of people have come to watch the motorcade of President John Kennedy as it passes downtown. The motorcade enters the area of Dealy Plaza and suddenly the beginning of a national nightmare occurs — shots ring out — the President is hit — mass confusion everywhere. Thanks to the medium of television, Americans know in moments that something has shattered their Camelot — they know something drastic has happened to their President — and they know that Lee Harvey Oswald has been arrested for the murder of Kennedy. They see before their very eyes a man named Jack Ruby shoot and kill Oswald before he had a chance to defend himself. Months later, the Warren Commission comes out with their official report of what happened that terrible day — Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin — three bullets were fired — and Jack Ruby as a fanatic who thought his duty was to kill Oswald. Harvey Yazijian of the Assassination Information Bureau put some doubts, as well as some spine chills, into the minds of those who attended the fascinating Ideas and Issues Committee presentation of Who Killed JFK . Flashing hundreds of slides to present his case, Yazijian narrarated facts accumulated through eleven years of AIB research. Also included was a showing of the Andrew Zapruder film, which according to Yazijian, was suppressed by the FBI, along with other evidence, until recently. Yazijian contests the film shows Kennedy jerking backwards — thereby destroying the theory that all the shots came from behind. The program is presented on the foundation that the Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy and though Yazijian never came out and said who he believes was behind the killing, he did make some suggestions which are indeed food for thought.

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♦ The Who? Yeah, that ' s right. The WHO!!! Right here at MTSU No- vember 25 had been greatly antici- pated by most everyone, and neither the horrid warm-up act nor Daltrey s maddening circles could hinder the high of the near-capacity crowd. The first band was a real joke — Toots and the Maytalls, that little ol ' band from Jamaica. Their biggie was Take Me Home Country Roads done raggae style. They stomped around on stage for a while and then left — much to the relief of the audience. The Who came on and started off slowly. For about the first hour things were quiet as the four men reeled off song after song. Some of the better numbers were Baba O ' Riley and Behind Blue Eyes from Who ' s Next and Jimi Hendrix ' s favorite Who song The Spider . The second half of the show proved to be the climax when they did a med- ley of songs from the rock opera, Tommy. Amazing Journey was the first and the worst one they did. The second song was Sparks. It was about the best one due to the per- fect synchronization of the ' eye-split- ting ' lighting system. Some much needed comic relief came when Keith