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Kent State and the End of American Innocence

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At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus commons at Kent State University. At noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. The story doesn't end there, though. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the commons.

The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus; preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place.

Using the university's recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era.

©2016 Howard Means (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Amériques Politique États-Unis Étudiant Ohio
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I wanted to read this book to learn about what happened, but, wow, I had no idea. What a sad fiasco. Well researched, written and narrated. I liked that the telling of what happened at Kent State was placed in context of what was going on politically in the USA. I also appreciated how the author pinpointed this event as what ended the student protest movement of the 60’s. Recommended.

A very important book

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