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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiven the date - I thought I would post this here. Four Dead in Ohio.
Silent Type
(3,130 posts)Deuxcents
(16,521 posts)Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students and wounded 9, all unarmed protesting the Viet Nam War. Thanks for posting this as I was looking thru the posts for an acknowledgment of what happened 54 years ago. I remember being horrified that a governor would order to shoot unarmed peaceful protesters.
Kid Berwyn
(15,239 posts)The Howard Zinn Education Project is an excellent resource:
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kent-state-massacre/
patphil
(6,276 posts)That most iconic moment of the anti-war movement; burned into the minds of 10's of millions of Americans.
I'll never forget it.
calimary
(81,670 posts)Absolutely unforgettable. Shocking, riveting, jolting, horrifying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/19/girl-kent-state-photo-lifelong-burden-being-national-symbol/
Here's a link to who took that photo:
https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632261/
It's in the Library of Congress.
About that shooting that day:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/05/19/kent-state-shooting-miller
Hekate
(91,228 posts)ancianita
(36,271 posts)MiHale
(9,836 posts)But we do
every year.
calimary
(81,670 posts)Every year.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,273 posts)SouthBayDem
(32,113 posts)About 10 years ago their choice of officially licensed music went way up. This was uploaded in November 2014:
LuckyLib
(6,823 posts)in college and one in high school.
rubbersole
(6,800 posts)Things got very real quickly. 5 of us left for Berkeley after graduating high school a month later. It was now a lifestyle.
CountAllVotes
(20,890 posts)He suddenly changed having a 17 year old son that was registering for the draft real soon.
I recall walking down Market street in San Francisco at one of the peace marches holding his WWII Marine Corps hand.
raccoon
(31,157 posts)hlthe2b
(102,650 posts)who I miss a great deal.
An unbelievably emotive song that makes me cry nearly every time.
FelineOverlord
(3,616 posts)For my American History class.
I mostly used the James Michener book as a reference.
I have never heard of it, and I was appalled (the area I grew up in was very Republican but I wasnt very political. )
ShazzieB
(16,733 posts)This book greatly increased my understanding of what happened at Kent State and the events that led up to it.
Author's website: https://derfcity.com/
TBF
(32,207 posts)thank you for remembering.
samnsara
(17,678 posts)Ping Tung
(848 posts)STUDENTS 0
The worst part was the polls afterwords showing that the public supported the murderers and Nixon.
electric_blue68
(15,072 posts)then Jackson State Miss, was soon after
CountAllVotes
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