Does this movie end with a student riot, wherein one of the protagonists loses his (or her, I can't recall...) glasses in the melee and is stumbling around being trampled and beaten because he/she cannot see to get away? And another character hides out in a classroom?
If so this is a movie I saw when I was very, very very young and it was very, very very confusing to me. But at least I know what movie it was, if that's it.
One of the cops tore the glasses off the face of one of the protesting students during the final bust.
No one was hiding out in a classroom at the end of the film or at any other time. The students were striking and occupying the Dean of the University's office because the University was supporting and financing the Vietnam war.
Based on James Simon Kunen's book.
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The University in this movie, or any university in America does not and has never supported per-se or financed any war.
Perhaps you are confusing the fact that many universities receive federal funding IF they have an ROTC unit on their campus.
Many universities in America caved to student pressure during the Vietnam War because the STUDENTS did not support the draft (er, um, I meant "war") and ended the ROTC programs, thus divesting themselves of federal tax money.
The draft ended in 1973, but the war and the Communist slaughter of the South went on for another two years. The Communist persecution of it's former enemies went on for decades and is only abating because the Vietnamese government is cozying up to America because we have a common enemy...........China.
The draft ended in 1973 and American young adults were free to gaze at their navels and engage in anti-American rhetoric, to this very day, as we rebuild the best naval base in South East Asia, namely Kam Ran Bay in Vietnam...........
Thank you, nagmashdriver, for clarifying things for the users of this web site. I could not have said it better myself. So many "young people" these days, and back in the old days, think they know what is going on in the world. But they are only listening to one side coming from the universities, the majority of the news media and their friends. Once out of the bubble of the university campus hopefully they will wake up. This, I found from my own experiences, after graduating in the mid 1980's.
Howdy Uncle Dave!
Thank you for your kind words. I try hard to assimilate Dennis Prager's maxim/slogan of "First tell the truth , then give your opinion".
It's such a shame that the Leftist takeover of academia and government has culminated in the current Fellow Traveler that is heading the most powerful force for goodness that the world has ever seen, ergo the USA.
All you and I can do is to try to reach one brainwashed child at a time. Be strong, Uncle Dave!