67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
By Howard Means
Read by Alan Sklar
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At midday 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. At noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a thirteen-second, sixty-seven-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. The story doesn’t end there, though. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the commons. The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus; preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place. Using the university’s recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era.
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Summary
Summary
At midday 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. At noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a thirteen-second, sixty-seven-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. The story doesn’t end there, though. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the commons.
The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus; preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place.
Using the university’s recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era.
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Engaging and informative
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The announcement in 1970 by Nixon to send troops into Cambodia in order to sever the passage of supplies and weapons to the Viet Cong was thought to be a good thing. However, the students of Kent State saw it differently and began protesting on May 4th. Starting off in the traditional sense at first, it escalated resulting in the burning down of the campus ROTC building. Ohio’s governor called in the National Guard and effectively put the campus under a military takeover. The book points out it didn’t take long for the stone and brick throwing, bags of human waste, and generally an absence of backing down on the part of the students to make the military feel threatened. Thus the 67 Shots that killed 4 students and wounded 9, including a bullet injury that left one student paralyzed for life. Howard Means wrote an engaging book and Alan Sklar rendered a noteworthy reading, maintaining a journalistic focus on detail without sacrificing the fears that were generated for both the National Guard and students. A fine listen for anyone interested in this piece of history that brought the world to their feet in astonishment.
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Runtime: | 9.98 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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