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

Students at Boston University and Loyola University in Los Angeles destroyed school computers in the spring of 1969, in Boston with acid and wire cutters, in LA with what quickly became the preferred method: bomb. Analog files weren’t safe, either: The Catonsville Nine Catholic activists burned hundreds of paper draft files in a Catonsville, Maryland, draft board parking lot.