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67 Shots
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence | Howard Means
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At mid-day 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. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one of them paralyzed for life. The story doesn't end there though. A far greater tragedy was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the Commons. Using the university's recently available oral history collection, Howard Means delivers a book that tracks events still shrouded in misunderstanding, positions them in the context of a tumultuous era in American history, and shows how the shootings reverberate still in our national life.
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keithmalek
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence | Howard Means
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I'm glad I read this book, because I learned that there was much more to Kent State than just a deadly overreaction to the throwing of rocks at the National Guard. The students also threw bags of feces at them. They burned down the ROTC building the day before. They threatened to vandalize local businesses that didn't display anti-war slogans in their windows.

Questions about Kent State remain. But this book provides much needed balance.

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(Continued)...everything gets cheapened, lives included.

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This is disgusting!

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#Riotgrams #CurrentReads I'm reading the 2 books pictured above and the book I tagged. I'm enjoying all three! #NonFictionChallenge17 Can't wait to see what everyone else is reading this week! And a huge shoutout to Lady Gaga🙌🏻💕🙌🏻💕She was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥last night🎤🎵🎤and congrats to the Patriots 🏈🎉🏈

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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence | Howard Means
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I read 67 Shots about the Kent State shootings and then took a field trip to Kent State to see their memorials. Http://www.spiritblog.net/67-shots