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Article: Four dead in Ohio: More than a memory.(Entertainment)(A UO professor who was at Kent State has made a film about that fateful day)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2005
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
It ended four young lives, put an ugly stamp on a pivotal time in American history and gave Neil Young a rock 'n' roll anthem "Four dead in O-hi-o" It identified one generation, mortified another and magnified the issues between them.
The tragedy at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, also gave Daniel Miller a film idea. Miller, now a University of Oregon assistant journalism professor, sat with fellow Kent State students in a police bus and listened from about 200 yards away as the fatal shots were fired.
The 55-year-old Miller is back in Kent, Ohio, today on the anniversary of the shootings, winding up ...