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Good evening. Were happy youre here for this even. Ive one of the reference librarians here and were here to listen to howard mean about his new book 67 shots at kent state where the shooting take place, only ten miles from here. Beer excited to have this program of national interest. Mr. Means a biographer and former editor at the washingtonian, Business Books include pakistan the ageneral jerry takes tis play. Johnny appleseed, the man, the myth, and the american story. And also wrote the first biography on colin powell. Join me in welcoming mr. Mean. I also wrote 67 shots. Im going to talk ...

i think around 1971 and also two members of the ohio national guard as well. we also wanted to have a wider time frame, and by what i mean by that is this. a lot of times when people look at may 4 they focus specifically on may 4 or just the four days i gave you. we wanted to kind of broaden the perspective a bit and look at some of the precursors, i didn't actually put it on here. but two of the big precursors were the b.u.s. walkout in 1968 on the kent campus and the sds takeover music and speech in 1969. we actively sought and got a couple of interviews that talked about those eve...

students who were actually in the line of fire such as this one here. it's kind of hard to see in the back there. but catherine delattre, one of the students i interviewed, she's being pushed out of the line of fire by her boyfriend in the background there. that's a better view of her. glen frank was able to calm the students down, defuse the situation and probably save a lot of lives that day. the two national guardsmen offered very diverse interpretations of these events. one, j. reynold schneider, who was a captain who led a company on may 4 that day, his company was not involved ...

annually at kenyon college. gregory wilson is associate professor in the department of history at the university of akron. his research and teaching interests include 20th century united states political economy, public and environmental history, ohio history and the scholarship of teaching and learning. he is the author of "communities left behind: the area redevelopment administration 1945 to 1965" as well as the co-author on an upcoming state history of ohio. his oral history project done with ua students, the times they were a-changing, akron remembers 1968, won the ohio academy ...

been dormant for a few years, the special collections librarian, which was me, took over and managed the project until about 2010 when i left ksu and went to indiana university. we collected approximately 40 interviews, we being myself and then a few students that i supervised. and we wanted this new part of the project to reflect some new goals and one of these goals was to have more variety of narraters. what i mean by that is the initial stage of the project, because it was heavily commemoration-based, inevitably you'll get primarily former students and then some faculty. now, we ...