my arms were jammed, and also I can see perfectly well without my glasses
File | Author | Date | Document Type |
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Click to open | Jem Thomas, Student demonstrator | 4th June 1968 | Testimony |
Second-year Sociology student Jem Thomas’ written statement for the Tribunal of Enquiry into the events of 7th May, focusing primarily on what the author calls ‘my brush with Dr Bowden’; Bowden had allegedly damaged Thomas’ spectacles during a scuffle following the disruption of Dr Inch’s lecture to the student Chemical Society at Wivenhoe House, and a coordinated response to the allegation arrived the next day