Kent State University Creates Walking Tour To Commemorate 40th Anniv. of National Gaurd Shootings

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Kent State creates walking tour of 1970 shootings
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KENT, Ohio -- Kent State University has created a walking tour to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Ohio National Guard shootings that killed four students and injured nine others.

The tour offers narration of seven relevant sites on the campus where Guard members opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970.

The tour features placards with photos, maps and written descriptions. It includes narration by civil rights leader Julian Bond.

Among sites on the tour are the pagoda near where Guard members fired and the parking lot where most of the students fell.

The shooting sites were added to the National Register of Historic Places this year.

The university seeks to raise $1.5 million to create a museum in a campus building overlooking the area.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/25/AR2010042502361.html

[samplegirl]

1. What a great tribute!

[conscious evolution]

2. What if you knew her

and found her dead on the ground...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqFwCFeosg&feature=related

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3. Thanks for the video

that one always makes me cry.

[zipplewrath]

4. Long past time

That school tried to run from this history for a long time. Long past time that they choose instead to turn it into a "teaching moment".

[samplegirl]

5. I could not agree more

I am so elated they are finally remembering history.