The State: ORANGEBURG MASSACRE: McNair takes responsibility for tragedy in book
In a new biography, former Gov. Robert E. McNair takes responsibility for the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre.
Three black students were killed and 27 wounded at South Carolina State College on Feb. 8, 1968 following days of escalating tensions between students and police.
“The fact that I was governor at the time placed the mantle of responsibility squarely on my shoulders, and I have borne that responsibility with all the heaviness it entails for all those years,” McNair told Philip G. Grose, author of “South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights” (USC Press, $39.95).
It is McNair’s strongest statement to date on a subject he has been reticent to speak about publicly.
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