Kent State shootings

The year's May 4 lecture will focus on Erica Eckert's research into how Kent State University's leadership responded in the days leading up to May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and injuring nine others.

The Kent State University shooting survivor died earlier this month at the age of 71.

Few of the dozens of books written about what happened at Kent State May 4, 1970 have the emotional impact of John Backderf’s graphic novel Kent State, Four Dead in Ohio.

The cardboard box is torn and taped. Before it held the childhood photographs, Boy Scout medals and other items that belonged to Bill Shroeder, one of the…

Just as protests against the United States’ invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War were beginning on Kent State’s campus, Bob Crane started to notice…

For Marty Levick, the photograph he donated to the May 4th exhibit was a treasure. It showed his dear friend Sandy Scheuer as the person she truly was—a…

Veteran journalist Dan Rather speaks as part of Kent State University’s 2018 commemoration of the shootings of May 4, 1970, and shares his experiences as…