Submitted by UAR-mwfree on Mar 29

The Strawberry Statement (Movie Soundtrack) (1970):  The Strawberry Statement is a movie about student protests, and its release in June 1970 was bad timing; considering that protests were much more serious by then, due to the fatal shootings of four students by National Guard soldiers at Kent State University early the previous month.  Less than two weeks later, two more students were killed by city and state police at historically Black Jackson State College (now Jackson State University); I recall the shootings well (I was still in my freshman year in college at North Carolina State University at the time), though they are much less remembered now than those at Kent State.  In any case, The Strawberry Statement was a box-office flop, although the double-LP soundtrack album is a fine document of late 1960’s rock music.