Society May 4, 2020 Kent State: 50 Years After the Shootings The radical notion that repression breeds resistance was borne out at Kent State in the years after the killings.

The shootings had taken place after many students had decided where to attend college in the fall, and students opted not to change their plans. Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, ...

Photography has shaped the American memory of the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings. The image of a young woman screaming in horror as she crouches beside the body of a student has become the ...

In 1969, Kent State had started a program to recruit students with disabilities, "and I wanted to be part of that," Kahler says. He returned to school in January 1971 and graduated in 1977.

Kent State is home to the state's largest nursing school and a top 10 U.S. fashion school and museum is generally acclaimed as an international leader in liquid crystal research.

Kent State shootings: View, past the Kent State University Victory Bell (upon which is written "Strike", of a line of Ohio National Guardsman assembled on the Commons, Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970.

Leland called the Kent State shootings “a terrible moment in American history.” “But it's been 50 years,” said Leland, wondering if May 4, 1970, is just a historical marker for many people ...

Kent State shootings: A day of tragedy Five months after the Vietnam War ended, on April 30, 1975, I arrived as a freshman at Kent State. I was a working-class kid, the first in my family to go to ...

KENT, Ohio — On May 4, 1970, Jim Banks was having lunch at Kent State University’s Wright Hall dormitory where he was resident director, when a group of students approached him. “Come on, Mr ...

Four Kent State students were killed and nine were wounded in the 1970 clash, which followed several days of Vietnam War protests. Four years later, eight Guardsmen were acquitted of federal civil ...

Kent State shootings: Mary Ann Vecchio screams in anguish over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was fatally shot at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. The photo won a Pulitzer prize for John ...