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Mkap

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Sat May 4, 2013, 05:12 PM May 2013

43 years later, May 4th commemoration (picture thread)

43rd annivesary of the may 4th tragedy here at Kent state. Tom Hayden, Bill Ayers, Chic Canfora, Alan canfora (the man with the black flag in the 1970 photos) and Russ miller (brother of the slain Jeff Miller) all spoke...i went to go eat so i didn't catch bill ayers but here are some pics anyways. Director Oliver Stone is schedule to speak later at a nearby location


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Big crowd, below to the right is the victory bell where students first assembled on may 1st and later on may 4th, 1970

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Activist Tom Hayden speaking about president Obama's inguration address and how the peace movement (kent state) needs to be remembered just as the president remembered stonewall

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close up of the stage which also remembers the two slain students at Jackson state

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one of the place markers

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memorial marker

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Where Bill Schroeder was killed. ROTC cadet returning from his final exams, shot in the back. You can see the hill where the national guard was standing in the background

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College democrats wrote a message

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the hill that national guard marched too

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where the national guard stood overlooking the memorial

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where Jeffery miller died, place of the the pultizer prize winning photograph

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place where Allison Krause died

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where Sandra Scheuer died, like Bill Schroeder she was not apart of the protest that day

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43 years later, May 4th commemoration (picture thread) (Original Post) Mkap May 2013 OP
Thank you for the reminder life long demo May 2013 #1
Thanks for posting these. Gemini Cat May 2013 #2
K&R! Wow! Thanks so much for posting these important photos! Rhiannon12866 May 2013 #3
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