Muggers Assault Med School Student Outside Harvard Stadium Friday Night

Floyd G. Jackson, a black post-doctoral student at the Medical School, was mugged by white youths near Soldiers Field last Friday night at 8:30 p.m.

Jackson said yesterday he was jogging around the outside of Harvard football stadium when a group of whites attacked him from behind and beat him. He said as he was jogging he saw over 100 youths congregating around a live rock band outside of the stadium. He added he believed some of them were watching him. As he jogged, he was knocked unconscious by a hard object on the back of his head, and then kicked and beaten while lying on the ground.

Jackson added that before he lost consciousness, he heard his attackers yell racial slurs.

Slurs

A nearby student called the Boston Police, who rushed him to Saint Elizabeth Hospital. Jackson had a hairline skull fracture and was kept in the hospital until late yesterday afternoon. He said he has bruises all over his body and must wear a neck brace. His injuries will cause him to miss a week of work, he added.

Boston Police were unavailable for comment yesterday. The Harvard police had no record of the incident.

Jackson has been at Harvard for a few months, but said he plans to stay for a few years. He in now researching the differences between white and black juvenile delinquency under the direction of Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for Student Affairs at the Medical School. He is also conducting clinical studies on juvenile delinquents in the Boston area through the Judge Baker Guidance Division of Youth Services.

Doctorate

Jackson received his doctorate in clinical psychiatry at Washington State University and interned at Yale before coming to Harvard.

Search

The police are still searching for Jackson's attackers.

The police are also trying to locate a Mexican student who had found and aided Jackson after the assault, hoping he might help them to find the attackers.

Young

Jackson said he thought his attackers were of high school or early college age. He added that he passed the youths twice before they attacked him, and both times they looked like they were about to begin jogging.

"The Harvard sports area ought to have more supervision," Jackson said.