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Carolina Crimes

EPISODE 250: "Tragedy on Campus": The Orangeburg Massacre

Carolina Crimes

Matt Hiers and Danielle Myers

True Crime

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Six months removed from "The Summer of Love", the United States was a powder keg of change, violence, courage, and citizens fighting for their beliefs. South Carolina was no different and in the town of Orangeburg, students from the then South Carolina State College voiced their displeasures of wrong doings in the community. A week of tumult, unrest, and violence all culminated on the night of February 8, 1968 on the campus lawn.

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0:00.0

For over 350 years, the state of South Carolina has been the setting for some of the most horrendous crimes ever committed.

0:15.0

Some have gained global notoriety. Some have been forgotten. And others have been swept under the rug completely.

0:23.9

Now, two South Carolina natives and true crime enthusiasts have teamed up to examine these

0:29.7

heinous acts in detail, giving their perspective of the evil that has resided in the Palmetto

0:35.8

State. You're listening to Carolina Crimes.

0:43.0

And welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode 250.

0:49.4

How about that?

0:50.9

And we want to say thank you to everyone that reached out about the Thanksgiving

0:55.6

Day episode that came out last week. A lot of good feedback about that. Danielle, she is not

1:03.1

on administrative leave. She just got kind of the day off today. I'm one of your host, Matt Hires,

1:07.3

along with Tyler Kopp. Yeah, Tyler, a friend of the show. He's filled in several times. We appreciate him being right here, being on hand to help us out. Time after time. Thank you, Tyler. Well, you're welcome, and it's a nice little stroke of the ego, because when I get to jump on with this with you, I get all kinds of texts from Carolina Crom superfans.

1:28.7

Some I didn't know listened. And then I tell you like, hey, did you know so-and-so listen to

1:32.9

Carolina Crombs? So, like, oh yeah, now I can make that connection. Yeah, so it's always a

1:37.2

nice little back and forth when I hear from people. Yes, but we appreciate you joining us here

1:41.3

today for one of these milestone episodes.

1:46.8

We always pull out the big guns for these. This is one that we have researched.

1:50.9

We have thought about doing several times.

1:54.4

We finally got enough information and put together this show.

1:59.0

But it's one that's really, it's a black eye on the history of South Carolina.

2:04.7

We want to remind folks, before we get into this, thank you again for all your feedback on last week's episode.

2:11.8

We hope everyone had a wonderful, a safe Thanksgiving with family.

2:15.3

We know some people, it stresses folks out the holidays.

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