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.
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