After fatal shootings during protests on two campuses in May — by National Guard troops at Kent State University and by police officers at Jackson State College — President Richard Nixon appointed a panel led by William W. Scranton, a former governor of Pennsylvania, to examine the situation. When the commission’s report was released, in October, The Chronicle was the first to publish it in full. Demand was great enough to call for a second edition
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