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Kent State Shootings “Ohio” – Neil Young

Kent State University, May 4, 1970 “tin soldiers” – untrained in “peace keeping”

“four dead in Ohio”

Kent State’s ROTC building was burned down in response to Nixon’s Cambodian ‘incursion’

Guardsmen were handed live ammunition rather than non-lethal

Filo’s famous photo of student turmoil

The students were not entirely peaceful

Guardsmen clearing the campus

Gas masks & bayonets for student protest?

Clearing the hill

Diving for cover!

‘Soldiers are cutting us down’

Limiting the press

The calm before the storm

State of disbelief

It should have never gone this far ‘four in Ohio’ How many more?

Citations Filo, John. Kent State/John Paul Filo. 1970. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.. Web. 5 Mar 2014. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2009632261/. Kent State University. News Service, Multiple Images. 1970. Photograph. Kent State: Special Collections and Archives, Kent, OH. Web. 5 Mar 2014. http://www.library.kent.edu/drc/may4/browse_titles.php. Young, Neil. Ohio. Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Rec. 21 May 1970. Atlantic, 1970. Vinyl recording.