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After three years of COVID-19 regulations, May 4 commemoration returns in-person with dedication of plaques for the wounded. Kent commemorates historic shooting 52 years on Skip to main content
Also in 2007, a memorial service was held at Kent State in honor of James Russell, one of the wounded, who died in 2007 of a heart attack. [124] Front side of Ohio Historical Marker #67-8: [125] Kent State University: May 4, 1970 In 1968, Richard Nixon won the presidency partly based on a campaign promise to end the Vietnam War. Though the war ...
Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970 Troops fired on Kent State ...
Joe Lewis was just 18 when he was shot twice by the Ohio National Guard on his college campus. A freshman at Kent State University in Ohio, Lewis had saved money working at the post office during ...
Allison Beth Krause (/ k r aʊ s /; April 23, 1951 – May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University and one of four unarmed students shot and killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard in the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings in Kent, Ohio.
She also appeared at Kent State University in May of the same year for the 25th annual commemoration. She returned to Kent State University again for the 36th commemoration in May 2006 and for the 37th commemoration in May 2007. [9] In 2001, Vecchio earned her high school diploma at the age of 46.
“Kent State” portrays a campus that grappled for years with its legacy, with no official memorial to the slain students erected on campus until two decades later, in 1990. A new visitors center devoted to the shooting that opened in 2012 suggested an emerging consensus about the tragedy, writes VanDeMark, whose work may contribute to that ...
As Kent State University prepares to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the May 4 shootings, some people can’t help but feel a sense of deja vu.. Roseann "Chic" Canfora, who was an eyewitness ...