[PapaBear3625]

It’s what I figured. He was a brilliant, scholarly, black kid from inner city Detroit and in JROTC, and he met Westmoreland. I’ve no doubt that the general would have offered help for him to get into West Point. Westmoreland was a graduate himself.

Is there anyone here who doubts that West Point admissions officers would not hesitate to accept a brilliant black cadet from Detroit?

[Windflier]

Is there anyone here who doubts that West Point admissions officers would not hesitate to accept a brilliant black cadet from Detroit?

It was 1969. The establishment (political and otherwise) wasn't exactly jumping through hoops to offer gifted young blacks any sort of rung up. This was before affirmative action took hold across the land.