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raging moderate

(4,281 posts)
5. Yes, Kent State (May 4) AND Jackson State (May 14)!
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:49 PM
May 2015

Thank you, Failure to Communicate! It really tears my heart that we so seldom hear about Jackson State anymore! The story that struck me hardest back then:
One of the people killed there was a young father, a whole block away from the protest, going home from his job to his wife and NEW baby!

FailureToCommunicate

(13,989 posts)
10. It's another example: if the victims are black, the media looks away. The police fired 460 rounds in
Sun May 3, 2015, 08:10 PM
May 2015

into the college DORM building where the students took refuge!!!



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126426361

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
2. That was during the golden age of Rock and Roll.
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:02 PM
May 2015

And Neil Young was one of the great ones...and still is.

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
4. I will *NEVER* forget.
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:17 PM
May 2015

I think America died that day. Certainly the America I knew and loved did.

"What if you knew her, and found her dead on the ground??"





**NEVER FORGET!**

Ahpook

(2,747 posts)
6. I wasn't born yet but I hear you
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:50 PM
May 2015

Has any of the soldiers responsible for these murders spoken out?

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
13. Notice how the "wire story" languaged the event:
Mon May 4, 2015, 04:08 PM
May 2015
"...when students battled with Ohio National Guard troopers."


Those "National Guard troopers" murdered those students in cold blood, and too many citizens crowed about it. I was 15 years old, and I remember thinking that my life could just as quickly be taken from me, just because I chose to be an activist.

I will never forget.

DreamSmoker

(841 posts)
7. I will never forget...
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:59 PM
May 2015

Today we are still in the Streets protesting some of the very same issues we had then...
From Pot to being Gay... Or the War... Name your poison..
Think of the past and see what Conservatism has done for you anytime...
Based on fear.... These Folks were here then and are still here now..
It takes Liberals to fix issues in America..
This while so called Conservative today fight change with every once of their energy..
It was this way then........ No different today......
To put this more in prospective....
It took 8 years for our For-Fathers to agree on a Bill of Rights to protect individuals from the majority..
This difference in us will never leave....
It is our nature... You are on one side or the other...

Auggie

(31,067 posts)
8. I remember like it was yesterday
Sun May 3, 2015, 07:17 PM
May 2015

I was 13 and living in Cleveland. Looking back at it, this might have been the event that opened my eyes to activism.

Ohio Govenor James Rhodes: At a news conference in Kent, Ohio, on Sunday May 3, 1970, the day before the Kent State shootings, he said of campus protesters: "They're worse than the Brownshirts, and the Communist element, and also the Night Riders, and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

Ohio elected him as Governor two more times after Kent State.

I hated this guy.

Faygo Kid

(21,477 posts)
9. Thanks for that memory, Auggie. I was 18.
Sun May 3, 2015, 07:38 PM
May 2015

I sure hope we get lots of posts here on DU about this on Monday.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
12. First heard this song stopping overnight at a Holiday Inn IN Kent, Ohio.
Mon May 4, 2015, 09:10 AM
May 2015

Hadn't even heard it on the radio as yet. I might have just missed it, but it seemed a local group had it right away.

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