Erwin D. Canham James E. Cheek Lt Gen Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Martha A. Derthick Bayless Manning Revius O. Ortique Jr. On June 13, 1970, President Richard Nixon established the President's Commission on Campus unrest, which became known as the Scranton Commission after its chairman, former Pennsylvania governor William Scranton.

Scranton was asked to study the dissent, disorder, and violence breaking out on college and university campuses, particularly the national student strike that was then going on.

Other violent confrontations, such as the killing of two students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, also incited public and administration concern.

[1] Scranton concluded that, "It is true that the amount of campus disruption and violence certainly was much less in the period when the war seemed to be going in the direction of terminating and people were beginning to come back to the United States, for example, late last fall, this last winter, and early spring.

The Kent State tragedy must mark the last time that, as a matter of course, loaded rifles are issued to guardsmen confronting student demonstrators.