Link to nightriders takes you to a fantasy game cite instead of giving information about nightriders, which I think were southern KKK types.
16:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kent State and Jim Rhodes
This is the first time I've submitted a discussion, so please bare with me.
The longer we go since the Kent State shootings, the more Jim Rhodes gets blamed for them. I am in no way denying that he did what he did, I just don't think everyone has the full explanation of what happened.
Jim Rhodes spent countless hours flying to many college campuses that year trying to avoid what happened at Kent State. The big hotbed of activitiy was always Miami, so that's where they spent a lot of time. Governor Rhodes would get on his airplane at 2 a.m. to head down there. He would get there and several people claiming to be students were locked in the President's office and wouldn't come out. He knew these people on a first name basis because they went to a lot of campuses in the State pretending to be students. Woody Hayes offered many times to go with the Governor trying to help him out. In many of these campus uprisings, it was people portraying themselves as students that were causing all the problems, not the actual students.
The week before Kent state, a State official had gone to the campus trying to keep things under control. The airplane arrived back in Columbus riddled with bullet holes.
I know about the countless trips because my Godfather was the director of aviation for the State at the time and was the one flying him. My father went with them on some of the trips.
I believe the Governor had been at Kent several days before the shootings happened. The 'students' who weren't really students left him basically no choice but to call out the guards trying to protect the real students. Unfortunately, we all know that didn't happen and several of them were killed. However, I think in today's society the news wants to blame someone and it's always Jim Rhodes. He did everything humanly possible to stop it. If you need to blame someone, I think the individuals who stired the campus up and threw the feces on the guards and pointed guns at them are the ones who should be looked at and thought about. It's a terrible shame that students lost their lives this day. It simply didn't have to happen. Had the riots not been caused it would have never happened.
Asnodgra 17:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)asnodgra
I believe that Jim Rhodes was not of Welsh descent. He was born in an area
of heavy Welsh settlement, but I would like to have a source.
156.63.68.207 (talk) 18:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)iwerdhon
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