Daniel Meloro, Oral History Highlights
Channel: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Date: 2021-10-04

Daniel Meloro (Dietrich College, '70) recounts how the escalation of the Vietnam War paralleled emerging civil rights movements both nationally and on Carnegie Mellon's campus. In January 1970, the Activities Board, which Dan co-founded, brought South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond to campus for a lecture. Thurmond, who supported carpet-bombing in North Vietnam and Cambodia, found himself the target of a harmless but poignant protest. 

[0:00] "Unlike any other four years"
[0:30] CMU in 1966
[2:00] CMU in 1970
[4:13] Carpet of Bombs in North Vietnam
[5:12] Strom Thurmond's Talk
[9:13] Marshmallow Aftermath
[9:53] Airport Run-In