Name: Big government partisans crush student speech, contrary to Tinker case’s promise
Uploaded: 2024-06-23T08:04:58-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: 1969’s Tinker v. Des Moines court ruling concerned three Iowa high school students who, in 1965, wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. School officials had contrived to shut down the youths’ political speech. In a historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to free speech or expression […]

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Big government partisans crush student speech, contrary to Tinker case’s promise

1969’s Tinker v. Des Moines court ruling concerned three Iowa high school students who, in 1965, wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. School officials had contrived to shut down the youths’ political speech. In a historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to free speech or expression […]

Chickasaw Citizen Kennedy St. Clair Named 2023 Tinker AFB Airman of the Year

Air Force Airman and Chickasaw citizen Kennedy D. St. Clair was recently named 2023 Tinker Air Force Base Airman of the Year. The former Ada, Oklahoma, resident is an Air Force outbound assignment technician at the Oklahoma City Air Force base. In this role, St. Clair’s duties include processing permanent change of station orders across […]