| On October 11, 1968, John Hatchett was dismissed from his post as director of the King Student Center. Hester attributed this action the "the incompatibility of many of his actions and public statements with the requirements of his position." The latest issue which was the immediate cause of the action against Hatchett was a speech Hatchett gave on October 7 to 700 students at the Heights campus in which he called Nixon, Humphrey and Albert Shanker "racists bastards." |
| Front page of the Washington Square Journal, 10/68. NYU Archives Collection. |
| While student protest groups on campus, including PFP (Peace and Freedom Party) and SDS, immediately form an ad hoc Radical Coalition in association with black student groups BASA and Katara, a black student group at the Heights campus. These two coalitions announce a general student strike to continue until Hatchett is reinstated. |  |
| b/w photograph of student spray-painting main building, 10/68. NYU Archives Photo Collection. |
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| b/w photograph of student protestors, 10/68. NYU Archives Photo Collection. |
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| Hester's Letter to the University, 10/10/68. NYU Archives Collection. |