45 years after Kent State shootings, a survivor looks back

[nitpicker]

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/amherst/45-years-after-kent-state-shootings-a-survivor-looks-back-20150503

45 years after Kent State shootings, a survivor looks back

By Gene Warner | News Staff Reporter
on May 3, 2015 - 3:11 PM

Forty-five years later, Thomas M. Grace still wrestles with how the events of May 4, 1970, on the Kent State University campus have shaped his life – and his political activism. He saw death that day, and he was among the wounded students, a bullet ripping through his left ankle. Grace shared an ambulance ride with Sandy Scheuer, who never made it to the hospital alive. “I remember their saying that it’s no use, she’s dead,” he has written. “And then they just pulled up the sheet over her head.”

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Grace now has written a book about the roots of the Kent State protests, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. In short, Grace has moved from activist to chronicler.

His book, “Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties,” scheduled to be published later this year, is more of a narrative than a memoir. He describes it as a traditional history of student activism at Kent State, explaining why that activism had been so fervent.

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[annabanana]

1. kick . . .n/t

[Cryptoad]

2. I still remember

the local Sunday paper who always printed Saturday's college football scores across the top of its Front Page, mixed in with the other scores was "Kent State 0, National Guard 4".

[merrily]

3. If you ever need a definition or an example of "chilling effect on First Amendment rights".......

[marym625]

4. I also posted about this US atrocity perpetrated on its own.

Your post and another went up while I was wondering on mine. All three of us posted a little bit different information.

Thank you for this. It is good to see what these victims are still going through. Good for us to know I mean. Horrific that they still have not seen justice.

I sent the link to your post, along with my post and the third about this, to Alan Canfora. He is the head of the May4.org society and one of the victims, shot in the wrist