On May 4 , 1970 , Fonda appeared before an assembly at the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque , to speak on GI rights and issues . The end of her presentation was met with a discomforting silence . The quiet was broken when Beat poet Gregory Corso staggered onto the stage . Drunk , Corso challenged Fonda , using a four-letter expletive : why had n't she addressed the shooting of four students at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard , which had just taken place ? Fonda in her autobiography revisited the incident : " I was shocked by the news and felt like a fool . " On the same day , she joined a protest march on the home of university president Ferrel Heady . The protesters called themselves " They Shoot Students , Do n't They ? " – a reference to Fonda 's recently released film , '' They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? '' , which was just screened in Albuquerque
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