A former Kent State student will talk about the events leading up and following the May 4, 1970, campus shootings, in which Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of demonstrators during a Vietnam ...
Those words, following Neil Young’s mournful guitar lick that opens the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song, “Ohio,” have helped document a watershed moment in U.S. history. “Four dead in Ohio.” Monday ...
Kent State University Professor Emeritus Jerry M. Lewis speaks at the 2023 Lewis Lecture Series. Jerry M. Lewis, a professor emeritus at Kent State University, who bore witness to the May 4, 1970 ...
KENT, Ohio — Monday will mark 50 years since one of the most painful moments in U.S. history. It was the day that Ohio National Guardsmen gunned down unarmed activists on the campus of Kent State ...
The killing and wounding of students at Kent State University are still very much of our collective consciousness. For me, it ...
Yogi Berra famously said it ain’t over until it’s over. I turned on the NBA playoffs last Tuesday, expecting to watch funeral services for the 76ers, and somehow they jumped out of the coffin. The ...
On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State ...