Those of us who were college students in 1970 cannot forget the events of May 4, 1970. As a freshman at the Ohio State University, I was in shock over the deaths of four students at Kent State.
Kent.edu/may4:
On May 4, 1970, Kent State University was placed in an international spotlight after a student protest against the Vietnam War and the presence of the Ohio National Guard on campus ended in tragedy. Twenty-eight Guardsmen fired 67 shots for thirteen seconds, killing Kent State students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, and wounding nine other students, permanently paralyzing one. Demonstrations at Kent State marked the climax of a decade-long national student protest movement with roots in the civil rights movement of the early sixties. On college campuses, the generation gap of the sixties was strongly felt, with those in positions of authority--parents, campus administrators, politicians, and law enforcement officials--squarely lined up on one side of the divide and rising numbers of students on the other.....
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young immortalized May 4th with their song, "Ohio":
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?...
...Four dead in Ohio.
(lyrics: sing365)
