Download or read book The Kent State Coverup written by James Munves and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 4, 1970, two platoons of Ohio National Guardsmen fired on a crowd of students at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine. Neither the federal government nor the state of Ohio took any responsibility for the guardsmen’s actions. Through the account of the subsequent civil trial, we follow the events of that tragic day, as experienced by the victims and their families, and share their frustration as they try to discover the truth.

Download or read book The Fourth of May written by William A. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 4 , 1990 marks the 20th anniversary of the day Ohio National Guardsmen fired on antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University, killing four of them and wounding eight others. Authors Sorvig and Gordon have produced two very different books relating to that event. Sorvig's is a highly personal account of his reactions to the killings and his participation in an architectural contest to design a memorial to the casualties. His book does not purport to be an examination of the incident itself, and thus is not likely to be useful to readers attempting to understand what happened and why. Because of its focus, idiosyncratic style, and impressionistic approach, the book's limited audience is more likely to be readers interested in the creative process as it relates to landscape architectural design. Gordon's book is a clearly written, well-documented account of the killings; the subsequent investigations; and the criminal and civil trials that followed. While Gordon does not uncover sufficient evidence to justify a new explanation of the event, he is able to cast doubts on the theories Peter Davies presented in "The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience" ( LJ 9/15/73). Gordon's work serves as a good starting point for general readers and scholars seeking to learn more about this tragic affair.-- Thomas H. Ferrell, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette -Library Journal.

Download or read book The Kent State Coverup Faculty Plagiarism Academic Fraud and the Misuse of State Funds written by Robert Martin Frumkin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Four Dead in Ohio written by William A. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the shocking story behind the cover-up of the May 4, 1970 slayings of four students at Kent State University.

Download or read book Death at Kent State written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It didnÍt seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history. A photojournalism studentÍsæphotograph of a teen girl crying in anguish over a victimÍs dead body would win the Pulitzer Prize and become a symbol of the antiwar movement.

Download or read book 67 Shots written by Howard Means and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, though. A horror of far greater proportions was 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 the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus; preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place. Using the university's recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era.

Download or read book Kent State An American Tragedy written by Brian VanDeMark and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences. On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans—National Guardsmen sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded with chaotic speed, as guardsmen—many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft—opened fire on the students. Two reductive narratives ensued: one, that lethal state violence targeted Americans who spoke their minds; the other, that law enforcement gave troublemakers the comeuppance they deserved. For over fifty years, little middle ground has been found due to incomplete and sometimes contradictory evidence. Kent State meticulously re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes, and demonstrations exposed the growing rift between the left and the right. Many students opposed the war as unnecessary and unjust and were uneasy over poor and working-class kids drafted and sent to Vietnam in their place. Some developed a hatred for the military, the police, and everything associated with authority, while others resolved to uphold law and order at any cost. Focusing on the thirteen victims of the Kent State shooting and a painstaking reconstruction of the days surrounding it, historian Brian VanDeMark draws on crucial new research and interviews—including, for the first time, the perspective of guardsmen who were there. The result is a complete reckoning with the tragedy that marked the end of the sixties.

Download or read book Kent State written by James Albert Michener and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Report of the President s Commission on Campus Unrest written by United States. President's Commission on Campus Unrest and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Orangeburg Massacre written by Jack Bass and published by Sweet & Maxwell. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the night of February 8, 1968 when a group of young people were protesting on the campus of South Carolina State College and officers of the law opened fire killing three young men.

Download or read book Kent State written by James A. Michener and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1971 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secrets written by Daniel Ellsberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam - to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War. In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in dramatic detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he came to risk his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy. The story of one man's exploration of conscience, Secrets is also a portrait of America at a perilous crossroad. "[Ellsberg's] well-told memoir sticks in the mind and will be a powerful testament for future students of a war that the United States should never have fought." -The Washington Post "Ellsberg's deft critique of secrecy in government is an invaluable contribution to understanding one of our nation's darkest hours." -Theodore Roszak, San Francisco Chronicle

Download or read book The Truth about Kent State written by Peter Davies and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kent State Shootings and What Came Before written by David B. McCoy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, concise, and informative, In Your Hand books / Spare Change Press publications take less than 60 minutes to read.[Several sections of this book, particularly May 1-4, are based on available government public domain documents.] Royalties are donated to Non-profit organizations.

Download or read book Kent State May 4 written by Scott L. Bills and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reverberations of the rifle shots that killed four students on May 4, 1970 echoed across the nation and beyond. Nowhere, perhaps, did they echo with more persistence and poignancy than at the place where it happened, the Kent State University campus. For more than ten years the university's name has been a symbol of the Sixties protest movements as the causes of the event were debated, lawsuits embroiled participants and victims, and concerned people struggled for appropriate means for remembrance and commemoration--each issue leading to further, if less violent, arguments, demonstrations and confrontations. The May 4 episode has been recounted many times, in many ways. The events of the succeeding years, particularly as they affected the community in which they happened, are less well documented. As event and as symbol, Kent State/May 4 means many things to many people. This unique collection of essays and personal interviews presents a broad spectrum of these viewpoints in recounting the events of May 4 and those of the aftermath years. The result is a composite history from the perspectives of many of those who lived it, a reflection of the differing ideological stances and life experiences characteristic of that tumultuous era in American history.

Download or read book The Truth about Kent State written by Peter Davies and published by New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Everything She Ever Wanted written by Ann Rule and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A true story of obsessive love, murder and betrayal."--Cover