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67 Shots: 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, although. A horror of far greater proportions used to be 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 of the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus; preventable in that each party to the tragedy made the mistaken choices on the mistaken time within the mistaken place.

Using the university’s recently to be had oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of individuals who were there, and skillfully situates it within the context of a tumultuous era.

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