Jack Whiting, of New Jersey, also remembers that day.
North Jersey Media Group:
Early in the evening the week before May 4, 1970, Jack Whiting's buddy had a favor to ask: He needed someone to walk his girlfriend to the library.
Whiting said sure.
Kent State University was expansive -- about 200 acres. Walks across campus were usually long, though this one took just seven minutes, Whiting, a senior at the time, recalls.
But then time stopped.
"All of a sudden, everybody was screaming and running," said Whiting, the city tax assessor since 1971.
Whiting turned in horror to find Ohio National Guardsmen charging at him and other students with bayonettes mounted.
He pushed his buddy's girl through a first-floor window of the library, then ran for his life. He made it around the building to the front entrance and ducked inside. He and the girl waited for a good hour, until it was quiet outside.
It was a preview of the greater horror to come....
This from ThrashersWheat---
Thirty five years ago, on May 4, 1970, an anti-war student demonstration at Kent State University, Ohio left four students dead, one paralyzed, and eight others wounded.
The demonstration ended when the National Guard fired into the crowd of students. The shootings ended the lives of four students Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer.
Shortly thereafter, Neil Young wrote what would become an anthem of a generation -- the song "Ohio" in memory of the "Four dead in Ohio"......
Democracy Now has a several pieces on the shootings at Kent which was originally publish on May 4, 2005:
On May 4th, 1970 - 35 years ago today - National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of unarmed students at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others wounded. We commemorate the 35th anniversary by airing an excerpt of the documentary, "Kent State: The Day the War Came Home" that includes interview with students and National Guardsmen who were there....
