Kent State/May 4 : echoes through a decade / edited by Scott L. Bills.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bills, Scott L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kent State University--Students--Attitudes.

Kent State University.

Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The reverberations of the rifle shots that killed four students on May 4, 1970 echoed across the nation and beyond. Nowhere, perhaps, did they echo with more persistence and poignancy than at the place where it happened, the Kent State University campus. For more than ten years the university's name has been a symbol of the Sixties protest movements as the causes of the event were debated, lawsuits embroiled participants and victims, and concerned people struggled for appropriate means for remembrance and commemoration, each issue leading to further, if less violent, arguments, demonstrations and confrontations. The May 4 episode has been recounted many times, in many ways. The events of the succeeding years, particularly as they affected the community in which they happened, are less well documented. As event and as symbol, Kent State/May 4 means many things to many people. This unique collection of essays and personal interviews presents a broad spectrum of these viewpoints in recounting the events of May 4 and those of the aftermath years. The result is a composite history from the perspectives of many of those who lived it, a reflection of the differing ideological stances and life experiences characteristic of that tumultuous era in American history.

Contents:

Introduction: The past in the present / Scott L. Bills

Fact-finding: "To dispel the rumors" an interview with Mary Vincent

Town in crisis: "It's life, liberty, and property" an interview with Lucius Lyman, Jr.

Chain reaction: "A series of mistakes" an interview with Leigh Herington

After May 4: "Kent State haunts you" and interview with Ruth Gibson

The ones they missed with bullets / Bill Arthrell

The frustrations of a former activist / Kenneth R. Caulkins

A view from Europe / Lawrence S. Kaplan

Randon bullets: "It rains on the just as well as the unjust" an interview with Charles Kirkwood

Enforcing the law: "What did they expect?" an interview with Robert Gabriel

The May 4 Disease / John A. Begala

The Kent heritage" A commencement address delievered August 27, 1977 / Lawrence S. Kaplan

Official violence: An American tradition / John Logue

The burning question: A government cover-uo? / Peter Davies

A phoenix reaction: Peace studies at Kent State Unversity / Dennis Carey

The candlelight vigil: "A way of participating" an interview with Jerry M. Lewis

The Kent State legacy and the "Business at Hand" / Miriam Jackson

Sensitivity to an image / D. Ray Heisey

Neglect

Benign or malignant? The faculty and administrative respones / Robert A. Dyal

The gym controversy: "A massive assault on this institution " an interview with Michael Schwartz

Tent city : "A real community" an interview with Nancy Grim

The legal battle: Finishing unfinished business /Sanford Jay Rosen

December dialogues: The settlement reconsidered / Charles A. Thomas

Some remarks after a decade: An address delievered May 3, 1980 / Martin K. Nurmi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies (pages [251]-298) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61277-015-0