Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Abergan.

This day, April 30th, 1968, New York City police officers acting at the behest of officials

at Columbia University cleared five campus buildings that had been occupied by students protesting various issues

linked to a war abroad and race relations at home and yes listeners there is a big

sign floating over my head as I read this that says history repeating itself,

history repeating itself.

Look, of course we are recording this at a moment that there are campus protests at

Colombia and around the country going on to protest the war in

Gaza and the police are being called in to clear them often by the university

presidents themselves. Hundreds of arrests, there's been a decent amount of

coverage about how this echoes what happened in 1968,

but we thought that we would bring our this day lens to it. This was kind of on our list anyway and

feels like the moment to do it.

So let's talk about the campus protests of 1968.

And then of course a little bit of what it tells us

about what's happening on campuses right now.

But here, as always, Nikolheimer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there.

Hello from Vanderbilt, where there is also an encampment and also have been student arrests.

Hello from another college campus.

Hey there guys.

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