Turn on PBS RIGHT NOW. The day the 60s died, Kent State and Cambodia.

[Faygo Kid]

I was a college freshman in spring 1970. It was a week after the first Earth Day. If you remember, watch it. If you don't, watch it. It was seminal to our nation and our lives.

Fuck you, Richard Nixon. And for those younger, I'll throw in W. and Cheney, too. But this show is important history.

[elleng]

1. Yes. Thanks.

Listening.

[appalachiablue]

2. Got it. K & R

[livetohike]

3. I was a high school senior in 1970. A girl from a rival high school died at Kent State

(Allison Krause). That made it so personal and frightening. We grew up in strange times.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. I remember and still feel the profound sadness that news brought.

And the backdrop was endless deaths in Viet Nam.....

[malthaussen]

5. As I always point out this time of year...

... let us not forget Jackson State, where children were shot just a few days later.

-- Mal

[LiberalElite]

6. I remember. The Kent State shootings deeply affected me

[KT2000]

7. I will never forget

we left high school and went to downtown Seattle to a demonstration that ended up on the freeway - I-5. Killing students was unbelievable and frightening. We were maced and clubbed.

I also saw "outside agitators" and some people with obvious mental health issues were part of the crowd. The street below us was where the buses of cops in riot gear got out. One guy who was mentally disturbed threw rocks at them so they were good and angry by the time they got up to the freeway.
News reports do not differentiate between protestors and people with mental health issues and the agent provocateurs. They do not get the whole story.

[DebbieCDC]

8. Try being a teenager in small-town Ohio about 150 miles from Kent

and having to see that FUCKTARD governor Jim Rhodes who sent the Nat Guard into Kent State get re-elected not once but twice

I got out of my "home" state as soon as I finished college and never went back.