Given the date - I thought I would post this here. Four Dead in Ohio.

[flashman13]

[Silent Type]

1. Powerful song/video. David Crosby's screaming "4 Dead . . . . How many more" gets me every time.

[Deuxcents]

2. May 4, 1970.

Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students and wounded 9, all unarmed protesting the Viet Nam War. Thanks for posting this as I was looking thru the posts for an acknowledgment of what happened 54 years ago. I remember being horrified that a governor would order to shoot unarmed peaceful protesters.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Guilty never held to account.

On television I saw the father of one of the victims, Allison Krause, barely able to control his grief, pointing to the fact that President Nixon had referred to student protesters as “bums.” He cried out, “My daughter was not a bum!”

The Howard Zinn Education Project is an excellent resource:

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kent-state-massacre/

[patphil]

4. That one picture of the woman with outstretch arms kneeling over the body of a fallen demonstrator.

That most iconic moment of the anti-war movement; burned into the minds of 10's of millions of Americans.
I'll never forget it.

[calimary]

8. An unforgettable photo.

Absolutely unforgettable. Shocking, riveting, jolting, horrifying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/19/girl-kent-state-photo-lifelong-burden-being-national-symbol/

Here's a link to who took that photo:
https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632261/

It's in the Library of Congress.

About that shooting that day:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/05/19/kent-state-shooting-miller

[Hekate]

17. She was just a girl, iirc, a 14 y.o. teenager. Oh gods have we learned nothing?

[Iris]

5. Kick

[ancianita]

6. Thank you.

[MiHale]

7. Difficult time to remember...

But we do…every year.

[calimary]

10. And it's critically important that we do.

Every year.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. kick

[SouthBayDem]

11. YouTube official audio is here.

About 10 years ago their choice of officially licensed music went way up. This was uploaded in November 2014:

[LuckyLib]

12. This radicalized my folks. They had three kids

in college and one in high school.

[rubbersole]

16. It happened on my 18th birthday.

Things got very real quickly. 5 of us left for Berkeley after graduating high school a month later. It was now a lifestyle.

[CountAllVotes]

24. My late father worked for UCB at the time

He suddenly changed having a 17 year old son that was registering for the draft real soon.

I recall walking down Market street in San Francisco at one of the peace marches holding his WWII Marine Corps hand.

[raccoon]

13. I'll always think of that on this date.

[hlthe2b]

14. Neil Young's masterpiece, but only with the contributions of all the others, especially David Crosby...

who I miss a great deal.

An unbelievably emotive song that makes me cry nearly every time.

[FelineOverlord]

15. I wrote a term paper on Kent State in high school

For my American History class.

I mostly used the James Michener book as a reference.

I have never heard of it, and I was appalled (the area I grew up in was very Republican but I wasn’t very political. )

[ShazzieB]

18. If you like graphic novels, i highly recommend Kent State: four dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf.

This book greatly increased my understanding of what happened at Kent State and the events that led up to it.

"On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children--a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on 'My Friend Dahmer' and 'Trashed', Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. 'Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio', which will be published in time for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent--as relevant today as it was in 1970"--Provided by publisher.

Author's website: https://derfcity.com/

[TBF]

19. They will shoot the leftists every time -

thank you for remembering.

[samnsara]

20. the music back then.....

[Ping Tung]

21. As I recall, UCLA put this on their Marquee

NATIONAL GUARD 4
STUDENTS 0

The worst part was the polls afterwords showing that the public supported the murderers and Nixon.

[electric_blue68]

22. It was a Shocking day! The song still brings chills.

then Jackson State Miss, was soon after

[CountAllVotes]

23. K&R

& recommend.