The historian Jack Bass attributed the discrepancy in media coverage partly due to the Orangeburg incident occurring after large-scale urban riots, which made it seem small by comparison. It may not have been considered newsworthy, especially since the shootings occurred at night, when media coverage, especially any television news, was less. In addition, the victims at Orangeburg were mostly young black men protesting against local segregation. Linda Meggett Brown wrote that subsequent events in the spring of 1968the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., followed shortly by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and events in the Vietnam Warovershadowed the events at Orangeburg. At Kent State, by contrast, Bass noted that the victims were young white students protesting against the U.S. war in Vietnam, which had become increasingly unpopular and a highly politicized national issue. They were attacked by members of the National Guard, which the media may have judged was a more inflammatory aspect of the shootings. The black students at Jackson State were also protesting against the war, and the killings there took place shortly after those at Kent State. It appeared that law enforcement and university administrations had no idea about how to handle campus unrest. There was widespread public outrage over the events. Legacy South Carolina State University's gymnasium is named in memory of the three men killed. In their honor, a monument was erected on campus, and the site has been marked. All-Star Triangle Bowl became integrated. On August 9, 2013, a work crew fixed a spelling error on the Orangeburg Massacre Monument. Delano H. Middleton's name was mistakenly listed as Delano B. Middleton. One theory for the incorrect initial is that it was pulled from Middleton's nickname, "Bump". The error went unnoticed for over 40 years. In 2001, Governor Jim Hodges attended the university's annual memorial of the event, the first governor to do so. That same year, on the 33rd anniversary of the killings, an oral history project featured eight survivors telling their stories at a memorial service. It was the first time survivors had been recognized at the memorial event. Robert Lee Davis told an interviewer, "One thing I can say is that I'm glad you all are letting us do the talking, the ones that were actually involved, instead of outsiders that weren't there, to tell you exactly what happened." A joint resolution was introduced in the South Carolina state general