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Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings

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A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the Ohio National Guard occurred in the afternoon on May 4, 1970. What remained, in conjunction with the tragic injuries and lives lost, used to be a remarkable array of conflicting interpretations and theories about what happened―and why.

Above the Shots sheds new light on this historic event through the recollections of more than 50 narrators, whose stories are unique and riveting: the former mayor of Kent a witness to the insurrection on the town a couple of nights earlier a protester who helped burn the ROTC building a Black United Students member who used to be warned to keep away from the protest a Vietnam veteran who deplored the counterculture yet administered first aid to the wounded a friend of probably the most mortally wounded students, who died in his arms a guardsman sympathetic to the students a faculty member supportive of the Guard an outraged student who went to the state capital to make a citizen’s arrest of Governor Rhodes a pair of former KSU presidents who, years later, courted controversy by how they chose to memorialize the tragedy. From the precipitous cultural conflicts of the 1960s to the everraging battle over how to remember that the Kent State incident, the authors examine how these accounts challenge and deepen our understanding of the shootings, the Vietnam Era, memory, and oral history. Spanning five decades, Above the Shots not only chronicles the immediate chain of events that led to the shootings but explores causes and consequences, prevailing conspiracies, and the seek for catharsis. This is a narrative assemblage of voices that rise above the rhetoric―above the din―to show how a watershed moment in modern American history continues to speak to us.

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