European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 4 the stars and strips sociologists agree with ii. Rap Brown is violence really As american As Cherry pie by Ronald g. Cohen United press International we Are a violent people witha violent history and the instinct for violence has seeped into the bloodstream of our National life said Arthu Schlesinger or. The pulitzer prize winning historian and Anaide to the late president John f. Kennedy. The whole culture has changed the violence syndrome into a Cool guiltless routine of disposing of problems by disposing of the people who cause the problems said Albert Bandura a psychologist and professor at Stanford uni Don t weep often but today in this Beautiful Sunshine i wept for my country that has declined so much in its morality and spirituality said Evange list Billy in the nature of our people and the environment four society makes possible such murder and violence asked president Johnson in announcing the appointment of a High level commission to stud violence in America this tra Gic men All spoke vedness Day in the flush of disbelief that swept the nation after the shooting of sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy. They spoke in sorrow but they spoke with reason an restraint. They expressed the increasingly widespread belief that violence is not an occasional isolated tragedy but is in grained perhaps irreversibly in the fabric of american life. Black Power advocate Brown said it several months ago violence is As american As Cherry , sociologists educators historians clergy men replying to a up Survey seemed to some statistics seemed to Bear them year in America some 5,600 persons died of gunshot wounds. In Britain there were fewer than 30, in Belgium fewer than 12, in France fewer than 20, according to sen. Josep Tydings d-md., it s insane he said. You talk about the Good old Pioneer Days. But to Don t live in the old Pioneer Days when everybody s a vigilante and you shoot the up. "1 think we be got to come to others agreed that the preoccupation with guns and violence might be almost a american phenomenon. Or. David Abrahamsen governor of the Lemberg Center for the study of violence a Brandeis University said americans not Only condone violence we love we love to fight. The Frontier Days made the gun Manly he said. In France they can riot for three weeks and Only two people get you imagine How Many would have been killed Here Abrahamsen said America s stress on materialism Breed violence. We re not a melting pot we re a damned pressure cooker. Our society is not built on the restraints of family or class it s built on Success. If you Don t have it you re . The wet nurse of several authorities said that television and other mass Media must share the blame for the violence syndrome in the nation. Stanford s Bandura. Inexpert on the Impact of television violence on children called it a Frankenstein i Don t understand How Pecan Stop it he said. I remember testimony at Senate hearings in which a Mother was explaining to her daughter brought up on television that her Grandfather bad died. She testified that the Little girl s reaction was who shot him " or. Herbert a. Otto Chicago psychologist said the continued stress on violence bypass Media is making Ameri Ca accept violent acts a recent study of 195television cartoons he said showed 1,430 acts of violence including killings physical As saults verbal assaults an harmful pranks. The most impressionable members of the nation the youth of America can often be found viewing cartoons where violence is being perpetrated a about the rate of one violent incident every 50 seconds Otto psychiatrist from Chicago or. Thaddens Kostruba agreed every to Western has a . Kenneth Kenniston a Yale medical Center psychologist said the television set has Given to violence an immediacy that secretly interests and pleases Many . Carlton w. Orchinik mental health consultant for the Philadelphia county court said he believes that television do snot encourage violence but brings about an indifference tit. We can see scene after scene of gangsterism and we can ignore it because it does no seem to touch Schlesinger a close Friend of Robert Kennedy spoke wednes Day at commencement exercises for 48 doctoral graduates at the City University of Newyork. He called the american people the most frightening on this we Are a frightening people because we have already in mis decade murdered the two of our citizens president Kenned Yand or. Martin Luther King or who stood preeminently before the world As the embodiments of american Ideal ism and because last night we tried to murder a third. We Are a frightening people because the atrocities we commit trouble so Little our official self righteousness our invincible conviction of our moral infallibility Schlesinger said. It is almost As if a primal curse has been fixed on our nation. We Are a violent people with a violent history and the instinct for violence has seeped into the bloodstream National Roulette Frk ready for tragedy by Joseph e. Mohbat los Angeles a Rob Ert f. Kennedy always sensed it would come some play russian Roulette every time i get up in the morning he would Tell friends. But i just Don t care he said. There s nothing i could do about it Kennedy has been de scribed As a fatalist one who never looked beyond the next moment and who was prepared for tragedy any Day. Thursday after he had died of wounds inflicted by an Assassin the memory of a Long introspective and rare conversation sur faced in the minds of the few who had heard it. Kennedy was relaxing in the rear of the four engine lock heed Electra winging through the night sky taking him Home to Hickory Hill va., after a week of midwestern Campaign ing. He had a dark Brown drink and he idly swirled the ice cubes with an Index Finger As he spoke brooding by gazing out at the stars and the lights of town below. Was t he concerned he was asked about the perils of such wild crowds As he had attracted that Day and nearly every Day of his presidential Campaign no the candidate said "1 just Don t worry about that. There s no sense in worrying about those things. If they want you they can get he think someone would seek to harm him one Day he thought for perhaps 30 seconds and then said Well let snot talk about a reporter thought of his brother John f. Kennedy assassinated of an older brother killed in wartime of his wife parents and his close Friend Dean Markham killed in plan crashes. But would t it be a National crisis if one of his stature were to be harmed after the violence to his brother and to Martin Luther King jr.? perhaps it would i suppose so Robert Kennedy said. But what can i do about that ill Tell you one thing if i selected president you won t find me Riding around in any of those awful he was referring to the closed armoured presidential limousine president Johnson has used since John f. Kennedy s motorcade assassination. Bobby Kennedy would ride in open cars he said so the people could see their presi Dent. Security on the Kennedy Campaign has been a 210-Pound for Mer Fri agent named Bill bar by. Faithful to a fault Barry has ignored battered Knees and wrenched Muscles to Lead his much smaller Boss through the frenzied mobs that try to tear him to pieces. With rare exceptions the gentle but powerful Barry has not carried a sidearm in this Campaign. He was not carrying one tuesday night As far As i known. Of course i worry about what would happen to my family to the children Kennedy mused that Early Spring night on the plane. But they re Well taken care of and there s really nothing else i can do is there so i really Don t care about anything happening to then there was a Long pause this in t really such Happy existence is it of psychological in a reflectiw1emphasis on co Petitta l Way of life As opposed us Gpe Ratton Uke stator Job get Over a scrap if i rather than share what have. With the competitive you Are bound to get a and hostility he Competition is useful encourages us to produ., this is at a Cost of Tei people a sociology professor the University of Verne Jeremy Felt said the at assassination was " consistent with the history of America that violence has been Pray institutionalized in nation through America boy and Indian folklore. A colleague. Or. M. , a professor of psycho traced the violent be of grievances Back to the iof the Early West. So did Michael 0. Sawyer professor criminal Law at Suraci University. Or. John Spiegel Tor of Brandeis uni Veti Lemberg Center blame assassination on the nation gun he said there is an emotio.,addiction to use guns i Strong As any other addict Osuch As he said the was also an emotional habituation to use violence in genes particularly through gunfire the Resolution of his colleague at the Center or. Ralph w. Conant said the since the assassination Lincoln in 1865, one fifth America s presidents have be murdered and one third have had attempts made on lives. Some Felt blaming an Eil tire nation was too Broad Ai indictment for the atrocity t a single person. California gov. Ronald a a Gan said he was in grew i disagreement with those we believe americans would fear a collective sense of guilt Tor Kennedy s assassination on m National television program wednesday night he deploy the shooting As senseless and Savage but added two Hundred million am cans did not do this. 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