Educators tour at the May 4 Visitors Center, Kent State University
Area educators came to the May 4 Visitors Center Aug. 1 to learn how to teach their students about the events surrounding May 4, 1970, at Kent State University.
The Kent State Shootings
The Kent State Shootings.
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May 4th, 2016 Kent State 46th Anniversary Commemoration
On the 46th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State the Memories of the four slain students on May 4, 1970 at the hands of the National Guard are remembered along with the memories of the two slain students at the hands of the police at Jackson State on May14, 1970.
Student and community organizers of 46th Commemoration include;
The May 4th Task Force, Black United Students, The May 4th Visitors Center and The Student Gospel Choir.
5am: Oliver Stone coming to Kent State
Friday, May 4, marks the 43rd anniversary of the Kent State shootings. This year, the university invited Hollywood filmmaker, Oliver Stone, to campus to help dedicate the school's May 4th Visitors Center.
CCM Kent State Shooting Protest: 5/6/1970
Film footage of the protest on the County College of Morris campus following the May 4, 1970 shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
The National Guard had been called-in by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes after 3 days of protests on campus and in the town of Kent in which property was damaged both downtown and on campus, the most egregious of which was likely the burning-down of the campus ROTC building.
Suggested reading on the Kent State shootings include Kent State: What Happened and Why by James Michener. Kent State University also has an extensive archive on the events surrounding the May 4 shootings available here:
This film footage was originally recorded on 8 millimeter silent film. Two popular protest songs from the era - Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag by Country Joe McDonald - have been added as a soundtrack to set the tone of the early 1970s. The songs are added only for the educational purpose of portraying the mood and tenor of college campuses following the Kent State shootings.
Kent State Tribute
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[2][3][4] occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5][6]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[7][8]
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students,[9] and the event further affected public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[10]
Casualties
Killed (and approximate distance from the National Guard):
Jeffrey Glenn Miller; age 20; 265 ft (81 m) shot through the mouth; killed instantly
Allison B. Krause; age 19; 343 ft (105 m) fatal left chest wound; died later that day
William Knox Schroeder; age 19; 382 ft (116 m) fatal chest wound; died almost an hour later in a hospital while undergoing surgery
Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20; 390 ft (120 m) fatal neck wound; died a few minutes later from loss of blood
Wounded (and approximate distance from the National Guard):
Joseph Lewis Jr.; 71 ft (22 m); hit twice in the right abdomen and left lower leg
John R. Cleary; 110 ft (34 m); upper left chest wound
Thomas Mark Grace; 225 ft (69 m); struck in left ankle
Alan Michael Canfora; 225 ft (69 m); hit in his right wrist
Dean R. Kahler; 300 ft (91 m); back wound fracturing the vertebrae, permanently paralyzed from the chest down
Douglas Alan Wrentmore; 329 ft (100 m); hit in his right knee
James Dennis Russell; 375 ft (114 m); hit in his right thigh from a bullet and in the right forehead by birdshot, both wounds minor
Robert Follis Stamps; 495 ft (151 m); hit in his right buttock
Donald Scott MacKenzie; 750 ft (230 m); neck wound
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Witness interview: Brian Slease regarding the 1970 Kent State Shootings
An interview with Brian Slease of Kent, Ohio, in 2009, about the Kent State Shootings, May 4, 1970.
May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970
On October 12, 2012, the play, May 4th Voices, was featured at the annual Oral History Association Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Over the next month, film director Mathias Peralta and stage director Katherine Burke worked with the cast to create a film version of the production to accompany A Teacher’s Resource Book for May 4th Voices. The film received its debut at the Modern Language Association annual meeting in Boston on January 5, 2013 and received its broadcast debut on Western Reserve Public Media on PBS channels 45 and 49.
Stage Direction by: Katherine Burke
Filmed by: Mathias Peralta
Written by: David Hassler
Co-produced by: Kenneth Bindas & David Hassler
Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
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13 Seconds at Kent State: When America Turned Upon Itself and Our Nation's Innocence Was Lost
Kent State University (KSU) is a large, primarily residential, public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States.[5] The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in Ashtabula, Burton, East Liverpool, Jackson Township, New Philadelphia, Salem, and Warren, Ohio, with additional facilities in Cleveland, Independence, and Twinsburg, Ohio, New York City, and Florence, Italy.
The university was established in 1910 as a teacher-training school. The first classes were held in 1912 at various locations and in temporary buildings in Kent and the first buildings of the original campus opened the following year. Since then, the university has grown to include many additional baccalaureate and graduate programs of study in the arts and sciences, research opportunities, as well as over 1,000 acres (405 ha) and 119 buildings on the Kent campus. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the university was known internationally for its student activism in opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, due mainly to the Kent State shootings in 1970.
As of September 2016, Kent State is one of the largest universities in Ohio with an enrollment of 40,782 students in the eight-campus system and 30,167 students at the main campus in Kent.[6] It is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation as one of the top 77 public research universities in the US and one of the top 76 in community engagement.[7] In 2010, Kent State was ranked as one of the top 200 universities in the world by Times Higher Education.[8] U.S. News & World Report's 2017 rankings put Kent State as tied for #188 for National Universities and tied for #101 in Top Public Schools.[9] Kent State offers over 300 degree programs, among them 250 baccalaureate, 40 associate's, 50 master's, and 23 doctoral programs of study,[10] which include such notable programs as nursing, business, history, library science, aeronautics, journalism, fashion design and the Liquid Crystal Institute. Kent State had a Fall 2015 acceptance rate of 85%.
Harvey Andrews' 1970 song Hey Sandy[102][104] was addressed to Sandra Scheuer.lyrics
Steve Miller's Jackson-Kent Blues, from the Steve Miller Band album Number 5 (released in November 1970), is another direct response.[102]
The Beach Boys released Student Demonstration Time[105] in 1971 on Surf's Up. Mike Love wrote new lyrics for Leiber & Stoller's Riot in Cell Block Number Nine,[102] referencing the Kent State shootings along with other incidents such as Bloody Thursday and the Jackson State killings.
Bruce Springsteen wrote a song called Where Was Jesus in Ohio in May or June 1970 in response to the Kent State shootings.[106]
In 1970–1971 Halim El-Dabh, a Kent State University music professor who was on campus when the shootings occurred, composed Opera Flies, a full-length opera, in response to his experience. The work was first performed on the Kent State campus on May 8, 1971, and was revived for the 25th commemoration of the events in 1995.[107]
Actress and singer Ruth Warrick released in 1971 a single with the song 41,000 Plus 4—The Ballad of the Kent State, an homage to the four students killed at Kent State.[108]
In 1971, the composer and pianist Bill Dobbins (who was a Kent State University graduate student at the time of the shootings), composed The Balcony, an avant-garde work for jazz band inspired by the same event, according to the album's liner notes.[109]
Dave Brubeck's 1971 cantata Truth Is Fallen was written in response to the slain students at Kent State University and Jackson State University; the work was premiered in Midland, Michigan on May 1, 1971, and released on LP in 1972.[102][110]
Holly Near's It Could Have Been Me was released on A Live Album (1974). The song is Near's personal response to the incident.[111]
A commemorative 2-CD compilation featuring music and interviews was released by the May 4 Task Force in May 2005, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the shootings.
On this day: Four killed in Kent State shooting
On May 4, 1970, after days of unrest over America's invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, student protesters at Kent State University clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen. The guardsmen opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others. It was a pivotal moment in America's anti-war movement.
Kent State Shootings 40th Anniversary part2 ~ Jerry M. Lewis
Jerry M. Lewis is professor emeritus of sociology at Kent State University. As a Kent State faculty member in 1970, he witnessed the May 4 shootings while serving as a faculty marshall. Since then, Lewis has been involved in researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the tragedy,
Despite the substantial literature which exists on the Kent State shootings, misinformation and misunderstanding continue to surround the events of May 4. For example, a prominent college-level United States history book by Mary Beth Norton et al. (1994), which is also used in high school advanced placement courses contains a picture of the shootings of May 4 accompanied by the following summary of events: In May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen confronted student antiwar protestors with a tear gas barrage. Soon afterward, with no provocation, soldiers opened fire into a group of fleeing students. Four young people were killed, shot in the back, including two women who had been walking to class. (Norton et al., 1994, p. 732) Unfortunately, this short description contains four factual errors: (1) some degree of provocation did exist; (2) the students were not fleeing when the Guard initially opened fire; (3) only one of the four students who died, William Schroeder, was shot in the back; and (4) one female student, Sandy Schreuer, had been walking to class, but the other female, Allison Krause, had been part of the demonstration. Distributed by Tubemogul.
The Kent State Shootings A Staged Event
The World Is A Stage
US President Richard Nixon 1970 - response to kent state Massacre
May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever. We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit. This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still hurts the Kent State community today. We invite the leaders of this company as well as anyone who invested in this item to tour our May 4 Visitors Center, which opened two years ago, to gain perspective on what happened 44 years ago and apply its meaning to the future.
Drug summit at Kent State Trumbull aims to help health professionals
Drug summit at Kent State Trumbull aims to help health professionals
President Obama Visits Kent State
President Barack Obama was a special guest of the Kent State College Democrats for a campaign rally Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Kent State University's Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center).
46th Annual May 4 Commemoration - Kent State University
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Kent State shooting anniversary
Kent State shooting anniversary