Finally, at long last, Editordude’s book on the May 1970 student upheaval caused by President Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent repression has been published!
Currently, it’s in an ebook mode — and the paperback version will be out in a couple of weeks.
The book is on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble and a half dozen other ebook distributors.
Here’s the Amazon description:
This book explores – in narrative form — the record of the May 1970 explosion of student protests and the National Student Strike, the greatest student strike in American history –all in response to both President Richard Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent government repression. The rebellion brought the nation’s higher education system to a halt and created an unprecedented crisis for the Establishment.
Millions of college and university students joined protests, 1400 colleges and universities were affected, 650 campuses were shut down, 8 deaths were attributed to the rebellion, 1300 injured or wounded, 4,500 arrests in the nearly one hundred clashes between students and law enforcement, and the National Guard was deployed 2 dozen times in 16 states. Drawn from original sources and archives of student newspapers and strike newsletters, the book unearths the burial for over 50 years of one of the greatest unreported stories of the century.
The murders/ killings of 4 students at Kent State University were just the tip of the iceberg, as The May 1970 Rebellion shows. Much more came down and this book gives light to the voices and acts of America’s college students. And it forever changes the way the history of the sixties and seventies will be viewed. The story of May 1970 can now be more fully appreciated and understood as the record of the true high-water mark of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
I look forward to reading “The 1970 Rebellion,” for I participated as a mid level organizer and wore an arm band as we marched on the San Diego State College campus, merged with many other campus organizations with gripes and issues and snaked our way to the Malcolm Love Library and then crashed into the Administration Building. A great many people were angry that the Viet Nam War spilled over into Cambodia with bombing and unacceptable killing of civilians. By then, a great many of my fellow students had been yanked out of classes and dragged off into forced servitude by the United States Army. We had a lot to be angry about, or so we thought. But yes, I look foward to a sober examination of a very sad period in American history.
Thanks Ron. Remember the NEL demo? That’s in the book. I researched actions students took across the country in May ’70 for 5 freaking years! It will be 2-3 weeks before the paperback is out.
Put me on the list for the hand-held version. I like holding a book when I read it! Do I get a signed copy since I sent you a signed copy of mine four years ago? Ha!
Hey Frank! I’m just finishing up with the 2nd edition of mine by the way. I ended up adding five new chapters, roughly 20,000 more words (so far) that bring the reader up to date. I’m working on the last chapter at the moment.
Been an interesting four years, hey? Bad part is that the publisher says I need a new copyright and I did not have a good experience the first time…
According to my publisher (35 yrs in the publishing biz), the ‘examiner’ I had deliberately lied to me about copyrights on photos that were taken with my cameras (both film & digital) while threatening me with denying my application and never replying to another email from me if I didn’t do it ‘HIS WAY!.’ I literally gave up the rights to some of my photos, that I have the negatives to, of me taken on my camera by other people. I just happened to get assigned a wannabe tyrant I guess…
Hope your experience was better!
sealintheSelkirks
I got my copyright myself and I’m not using photos, so everything but getting a paperback printed was okay. It has to be in two volumes because it’s so long.
sealintheSekirks – as I understand it, you already own the copyright on your first edition because you have printed it (this includes digital publication) but you have not yet registered it with the Copyright Office. The same condition will apply once you complete and publish (print) the 2nd edition.
According to this, registration isn’t essential. https://www.copyrightlaws.com/a-simple-guide-to-u-s-copyright-law/
“Publication, Notice and Registration Are Not Required
Under prior U.S. law, copyright protection was secured by publication of the work with the use of a copyright notice. This is no longer the case, and neither publication nor notice of copyright is required for one to obtain copyright protection for a work in the U.S.
Also, registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is no longer a prerequisite to copyright protection. The originality, fixation, and minimal creativity criteria determine whether a work will be protected by copyright. However, publication, notice and registration may be relevant to determining the copyright status of older works.
Although registration is not required for copyright protection, the Copyright Act provides many incentives for doing so. The registration is a public record of the copyright claim. Prior to the filing of any copyright infringement action in court, registration is necessary for works of U.S. origin. Registration also establishes prima facie evidence of copyright validity in a work and of the facts stated on the registration certificate, (i.e., the owner’s name, etc.), if made before or within five years of publication of the work.”
Registering it formally confirms your ownership and provides essential proof in the event someone disputes your ownership of the material but the fact that you have printed it (and own the negatives of the photos you printed in your book) is sufficient to establish your ownership of the material. Check out this Copyright Office circular: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
You will also find this Copyright Office FAQ informative:
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
Thanks for the info. Sounds like you’ve done this before! I have had articles & stories published that had pictures in them, and video like the riversurfing trilogy, but this was my first hold-in-your-hands book. The magazines have used pictures I sent with them, and The Lunch Counter Trilogy was published in Austria by the premier riversurfing magazine but nothing of that are copyrighted that I know of. I don’t know US copyright rules very well obviously, and certainly nothing on foreign ones!
I do have the Certificate of Copyright hanging on the wall behind this desk. It’s official, but it says that I own the text and only 27 of the 52(?) images I put into the book. The ‘examiner,’ as I said above, didn’t allow any photos to be ‘owned’ by me unless I personally took them with the camera which my publisher said was wrong. I actually own everything that I personally took or was taken by someone using my digital or film cameras. He’s going to walk me through this process on this 2nd edition. I may end up claiming more of them this time that, hopefully, won’t be argued about, and I’ll have the pictures taken by my ex etc etc, under copyright because it was with my cameras not other people’s cameras (there are a few of those). I still have my Canon AE-1 Program 35mm camera from the late 70s that took a couple of them like the Southside OB Pier surf shots…
The publisher also told me that, with the addition of five chapters/20,000 words +/- (I’m still writing) and new photos, I have essentially written a ‘new’ book so I should not just try to modify the original copyright but apply for a new one. It’s less of a hassle.
I have two more books I’m working on but need to get this done first before I go back to them.
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Time to go use a tank of gas sawing logs into firewood rounds, then back on this last and final chapter. I have the first four being read through/edited by an old friend in Utah who edited the 1st edition (along with a couple of others) and need to get this done. Thoughts swirling around in my head, ya know? She does like using red pens…
Thanks for improving my knowledge of this process!
sealintheSelkirks
Who cares about copyright law. Everything we write, say , sing and do is automatically entered into the public domain. Sorry to people like Jagger and Seinfeld, your gravy train is about come to a screching halt