Today is 40th Anniversary of Kent State Uprising

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Today is 40th Anniversary of Kent State Uprising

By bluegal Tuesday May 04, 2010 7:00am

This post is a reprise of last year's remembrance, except that there's a lot more going on for the 40th. Michael Moore has a day-long livecast, you can follow slain student Allison Krause's sister Laurel on Twitter, and news media coverage is likely to be farther and wider. It's important that people also remember the events of Jackson State, a predominantly black college at which police killed 2 students and wounded 12 on May 14-15.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the anti-war protests at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. For those of you under 40, May4.org has the history recap:

On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire into a busy college campus during a school day. A total of 67 shots were fired in 13 seconds. Four students: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer were killed. Nine students were wounded.

Although I was in the first grade on May 4, 1970, I can't forget what happened in Kent, Ohio on that day.

I was there.

Not on campus, I was in first grade. In Kent, Ohio. My father and my mother's father were both faculty members at Kent. By 1970 my grandfather had retired from the Math Department. When he retired in 1968 he was the only math professor on record as opposing the War in Vietnam.

My dad, on the other hand, was in the Art Department. Nuff said.

We were rushed home from school that day in a panic of police sirens, smoke, and confusion.

http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/today-40th-anniversary-kent-state-uprising

[activa8tr]

1. Thanks for sharing your perspective! I was a college kid back then

Kent State was a watershed in opposition to VietNam. After that day, many many many people came out of the woodwork, decent people, even many Republicans who had been silent.

For sure 1968 was also a watershed, but after 1970, I think there was no doubt as to the need for reform of law enforcement, the guard, and many other government agencies.

We didn't need the Watergate cover-up to start hating Nixon.

[Gordonskene]

2. Re: Today is 40th Anniversary of Kent State

And in case you were wondering what got the situation at Kent State started - Newstalgia has this clip about the Invasion of Cambodia from April 29th of 1970.

http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/spark-lit-match-started-fire-invasion