Kent State University marked the 49th anniversary of the May 4 shootings with .
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist discussed his career at The Washington Post starting in 1971.
He said in preparation for his speech at Kent State, he contacted one of the nation鈥檚 leading scholars on the secret recordings made by then-President Richard Nixon of his meetings in the Oval Office. They discovered a previously unknown section -- recorded in 1971 鈥� in which Nixon discusses the Attica Prison uprising, which ended when New York State troopers dropped tear gas and opened fire, killing 29 inmates. Woodward quoted the exchange.
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Woodward called the remark 鈥渃hilling鈥� and counts it among Nixon鈥檚 鈥渕ost outrageous鈥� statements.
At for the 49th commemoration of the May 4 shootings, unveiled this previously unknown Nixon tape, in which he equates the Attica prison uprising with 鈥� WKSU (@WKSU)
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