Warned Renshaw, “The penalty for this would be a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment by separate or solitary confinement at labor not exceeding three years or both.” “Charles Renshaw, special agent of the Women’s SPCA, said that he would make an on-site arrest of the demonstrators involved, should the napalm burning of a dog take place.” However, Charnay continued, on the day of the event, “William Savage of the Women’s SPCA informed the Daily Pennsylvanian that an ambulance was on hand from his organization in the event that the napalming could not be prevented by the group’s plainclothes agents and several dozen plainclothes agents from the Pennsylvania SPCA, the police commissioner’s office, and the civil disobedience squad, who were there with local television, radio, and press officers, and thousands of faculty and students to witness the napalming. In March 1965 Kuromiya helped to lead an occupation of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in support of the marchers who were injured by police at the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, en route to the state capital in Montgomery to demand voting rights.Ĭharles Edward Renshaw, 1929-2021. Later in 1962 Kuromiya joined a Congress of Racial Equality sit-in against segregation at a Maryland diner, then met Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy and author James Baldwin after attending King’s “I have a dream” speech in Washington D.C.

His first demonstration, in 1962, began with a two-day fast, followed by two days of picketing in a blizzard on behalf of Grinnell Support Against the Resumption of Nuclear Testing. “Ban the bomb” & civil rights protestsīut Kuromiya never completed a degree. Living on his own from age 17 on, Kuromiya in 1961 won one of six Benjamin Franklin National Scholarships and was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania to study architecture. Kuromiya was first arrested in 1954, at age 11, for allegedly corrupting the morals of an also gay 16-year-old. Small, somewhat effeminate, reclusive, and openly gay, in contrast to the outgoing 6’2”, 180-pound Arthrell, Kuromiya was born on in an internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during most of World War II. Steve Kiyoshi Kuromiya, already a seasoned activist at age 25, orchestrated the first and most publicized version on April 26, 1968, two years before Arthrell did it. “He later was arrested and indicted, along with 23 other students and one professor, on rioting charges,” but all of the charges were eventually dropped, due to lack of evidence that any of those arrested had done anything illegal.Īrthrell, though arguably the most influential in the later emergence and growth of the animal rights movement, in which he had no active part, in truth staged at least the fourth and apparently last version of the public threat to napalm a dog.Īrthrell did mention in a JFacebook post that “In my recent travels I’ve been observing the evolution of the animal rights movement,” but segued on to discussion of an Eric Burden appearance in Ukraine, where he was visiting at the time. “Arthrell, a committed pacifist, was among the 1,500 students who gathered on that day to protest the Vietnam War and the National Guard’s presence on campus,” Misko wrote. “Between 61 and 67 shots were fired in 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine,” recounted Elyria Chronicle Telegram reporter Andrea Misko on May 4, 2000, the thirtieth anniversary of the shootings.

(John Paul Filo/Library of Congress) More than 60 shots in 13 seconds

14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller, 20, at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

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