In 1968 an SDS protester burned years’ worth of the historian Orest Ranum’s research papers. John Castellucci looks at the event’s impact.

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It’s unclear which papers Meadows may have burned, but the issue is a “key focus” of the committee, which grilled Hutchinson over the incident for around 90 minutes, according to Politico.

So as private individuals, in an age of paper, people were pretty used to deliberately burning their papers. But also papers burned all the time; everyone’s got fires in their houses.