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1970, while Eric Holder (Columbia '73) was occupying buildings and supporting Black Panthers in New York City, Hillary Rodham (Yale Law School '73) was actively monitoring and supporting the defense of eight Black Panthers accused of murder and torture in New Haven.
Eric Holder, as a Columbia University student and leader of the Student Afro-American Society (SAS), participated in the armed takeover of a vacant campus ROTC office. The takeover lasted five days in the spring of 1970. The online news site added: "Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was armed -- and, if so, with what sort of weapon."
What's True
Former Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a peaceful sit-in at a Columbia University residence hall ROTC lounge in 1970.
What's False
Holder took part in an "armed occupation" of a building at Columbia University.
The Daily Caller article also linked to a speech in which Holder purportedly admitted to taking part in the 1968 Hamilton Hall protest (Holder was not in college in 1968, and he was part of a peaceful occupation of Hartley Hall, another building at Columbia). The article quoted a small portion of Holder’s 19 May 2009 commencement speech at Columbia College but opted not to excerpt the portions bolded below:
"I was among a large group of students who felt strongly about the way we thought the world should be, and we weren’t afraid to make our opinions heard. I did not take a final exam until my junior year at Columbia — we were on strike every time finals seemed to roll around — but we ran out of issues by that third year.
I also recall one day when we got together and decided to peacefully occupy one of the campus offices. We felt passionately about the need for a place where black students could gather and we went ahead and staged our sit-in. This became the black student’s lounge in what was then Hartley Hall. The person who we had to negotiate with, and whose office we also occupied later, was Dean Henry Coleman. In the ultimate display of chutzpah I later asked Dean Coleman to write my law school recommendations. This being Columbia of course he agreed. He was a great, generous man. This College allowed an impetuous, testosterone laced youngster to express himself in ways that other institutions would have considered unacceptable. Not Columbia. This is why I love this place."
Although the Daily Caller‘s confusing narrative suggested that Holder had admitted to participating in the 1968 Hamilton Hall protest, he could not possibly have been part of that incident as he was a high school student at the time and did not begin attending Columbia until 1969. Moreover, the Daily Caller‘s source material described a protest at Hamilton Hall, while Holder talked about having staged a sit-in at Hartley Hall. Although the names were similar, Hartley Hall and Hamilton Hall were two separate buildings on Columbia’s Manhattan campus. (Hartley Hall was a residence hall, while Hamilton Hall was an administrative/academic building.)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-holder-participated-in-armed-siege-of-rotc-office/