Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State

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The dramatic original account of events that shook the nation.

At noon on Would possibly 4, 1970, a thirteen-second burst of gunfire transformed the campus of Kent State University into a national nightmare. National Guard bullets killed four students and wounded nine. By nightfall the campus used to be evacuated and the school used to be closed. A generation of college students said they had lost all hope for the System and the future.

How did it happen that young Americans in battle helmets, gas masks, and combat boots confronted other young Americans wearing bell-bottom trousers, flowered shirts, and shoulder-length hair? What were the issues and why did the disagreement escalate so terribly? Would there be future confrontations like the considered one of Would possibly 4?

To answer these questions, prize-winning reporters Eszterhas and Roberts, who were on campus on Would possibly 4, spent weeks interviewing all of the participants within the tragedy. They traveled to sufferers’ homes and talked to relatives and friends; they spoke to National Guardsmen at the firing line and to students who were fired on. By putting together hundreds of first-person accounts they were ready to establish for the first time what in truth took place at the day of the shooting.

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