Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

In February, alerted that the campus computation center was working on an SRI project modeling a Vietnam invasion, militants invaded the center. According to the head of security, they cut the power and went right for the computer’s data storage drums. That’s where the government kept the man-months. Violence, including some minor gunfire, broke out between the radicals and conservative students. Activists also targeted the school’s most successful alumni: They chased David Packard around the Bay trying to effect a citizen’s arrest. “Packard before Calley!” they shouted, unfavorably