I.V. II
In early April, after Yippee leader Jerry Rubin was prohibited
from speaking in Santa Barbara County, I.V. II broke out. 
During
the civil disobedience aimed at the re-opened bank, dump trucks
filled with police circled the downtown area. Suddenly, there
was a gun shot and UCSB student Kevin Patrick Moran, who was
on the front steps of the bank trying to put out a fire, was
killed.
A reporter in the field that night from the student radio station,
KCSB-FM, filed a report both chilling and graphic:
"We have what could be termed an extremely tense andextremely
frightening situation. Because you see shadows of police lurking
in the dark and you hear rifles cocking in the background."
For days, the Sheriff's Department claimed that a sniper had
killed Moran, even issuing a description of the shooter. A court
inquiry subsequently ruled that Moran had been killed by an
"accidental" discharge from the gun of a City of Santa
Barbara police officer, David Gosselin, from a dump truck. Gosselin
went free.
After reporting this and other events in a play-by-play mode,
KCSB was shut down the morning after Moran's death by local
law enforcement and UCSB officials. This action was obviously
in violation of federal law.
Kent State
After I.V. II, there was a feeling of "Who would die next."
President Richard Nixon's unconstitutional bombing of Cambodia
and the killing of four students at Kent State University in
Ohio by the National Guard came just a few weeks later.
At this time, UCSB Vice Chancellor Stephen Goodspeed said publicly
that he felt "there were 100 hardcore revolutionaries in
Isla Vista and 400 or 500 leftists who sided with the revolutionaries.
There were also 4,000 or 5,000 moderates who can swing either
way, and swung left during I.V. I, and 4,000 or 5,000 who are
apathetic."
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