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Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre,"These would be the first of many probes into what soon became known as the Kent State Massacre. Like the Boston Massacre almost exactly two hundred years bef ...
. External links to reports, news articles and other sources of information may also be found below.
Books
* Agte, Barbara Becker, (2012), ''Kent Letters: Students' Responses to the May 1970 Massacre''. Deming, New Mexico: Bluewaters Press
* Caputo, Philip. (2005). ''13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings'' with DVD. New York: Chamberlain Bros. .
* Davies, Peter and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. (1973). ''The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience.'' New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. .
* Eszterhas, Joe, and Michael D. Roberts (1970). ''Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State''. New York: Dodd, Mead. .
* Gordon, William A. (1990). ''The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State.'' Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. . Updated and reprinted in 1995 as ''Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State?'' Laguna Hills, California: North Ridge Books. .
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Giles, Robert (2020). ''When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later''. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press.
* Grace, Thomas M. (2016). ''Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties.'' Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. .
* Hensley,Thomas R. and Jerry M. Lewis (2010), ''Kent State and May 4th A Social Science Perspective'' 3rd Edition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press.
* Kelner, Joseph and James Munves, ''The Kent State Coverup'', New York: Harper & Row. .
* Means, Howard. (2016). ''67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence.'' Boston: Da Capo Press. .
* Michener, James. (1971). ''Kent State: What Happened and Why.'' New York: Random House and Reader's Digest Books. .
* Payne, J. Gregory/. (1981). ''Mayday: Kent State''. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. .
* Ruffner, Howard. (2019). ''Moments of Truth - A Photographer's Experience at Kent State 1970.'' Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press.
* Simpson, Craig S., and Gregory S. Wilson. (2016). ''Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings.'' Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. .
* Stone, I. F. (1970). ''The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished'', in series, ''New York Review Book
'' New York: distributed by Vintage Books. ''N.B''.: The second printing also includes copyrighted material dated 1971. .
* Weissman, Norman. (2008). ''Snapshots USA''. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books. .
Articles
* Listman, John W. Jr.
Kent's Other Casualties, ''National Guard'' magazine, May 2000.
* Stone, I. F. "Fabricated Evidence in the Kent State Killings", ''The New York Review of Books'', Volume 15, Number December 10, 3 1970.
WKSU News: Newly-Enhanced Audio Tape May Reveal Order to Fire on Kent State Students, Former Student Who Was Shot Calling for Investigation Tuesday, May 1, 2007 – with audio links
By Jim Mackinnon, ''
Akron Beacon Journal
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'' writer, May 5, 2008 –
Scott Ritter
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speaks at 2008 commemoration
* Newspaper article archives:
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Kent State tragedy: Reflecting on May 4, 1970(the ''Akron Beacon Journal'')
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Kent State Shootings 40th Anniversary(''The Plain Dealer'' of Cleveland)
Films
* 1970: ''Confrontation at Kent State'' (director
Richard Myers) – documentary filmed by a Kent State University filmmaker in Kent, Ohio, directly following the shootings.
* 1981: ''Kent State'' (director James Goldstone) – television
docudrama
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* 2000: ''Kent State: The Day the War Came Home'' (director Chris Triffo, executive producer
Mark Mori), the Emmy-Award-winning documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, and relatives of students killed at Kent State.
* 2007: ("4 dead in Ohio: an American trauma") (directors Klaus Bredenbrock and Pagonis Pagonakis) – documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses and a German journalist who was a U.S. correspondent.
* 2008: ''How It Was: Kent State Shootings'' –
National Geographic Channel
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documentary series episode.
National Geographic Channel: "How It Was: Death at Kent State," 2008.
Kent State University - Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
* 2010: ''Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America'' (director Daniel Lee Miller) – documentary featuring the build-up to, the events of, and the aftermath of the shootings, told by many of those who were present and in some cases wounded.
Reports
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Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
' ("Scranton Commission"). (1970) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. .
Websites
Kent State University May 4, 1970 Resource Page
Kent State University May 4, 1970, Online Newsroom
Kent State University 40 May 4 Commemoration Events Listing
– 2010 anniversary events at KSU
Kent State University, Department of Special Collections & Archives: May 4 Collection
May 4 Task Force home page
By Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley (KSU professors)
Vietnam War Song Project: Kent State Songs
By Justin Brummer (UCL)
May4Archive.org
(maintained by Kent State historian Dr. J. Gregory Payne)
FBI file on the Kent State shootings
Repository of Oral Histories of the Kent State Shootings
Kent State shooting scrapbook
Links, photos, music and eyewitness reports about the shootings at Kent State.
AlanCanfora.com
– personal website of one of the survivors; historical information, photographs, & commentary.
May4.Org
– A 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity about the Kent State Shootings.
– A collection of articles regarding the Kent State Protest.
Mike and Kendra's Kent State, May 4, 1970 web site
– Detailing the commemoration process and related controversies and providing sources for research.
Kent State 1970: Information Repository by WKSUNational Register nomination form
Audio
"Sound Montage On Kent State", Morning Edition, NPR, 5/4/2000
(sound montage from NPR)
Video
Dean Kahler on KSU's May 4 Visitors' Center
- short interview with Dean Kahler.
On 40th Anniversary of Kent State Shootings, Truth Tribunal Seeks Answers
– video report by '' Democracy Now!''
Death at Kent State, Nat Geo Online
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