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Article: Philip Caputo. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings.(Book review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2006
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Philip Caputo. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings. New York: Chamberlain Brothers, 2005. Pp. 198. Appendices. DVD. Cloth, $19.95.
Describing tragedies of the 1960s and early 1970s, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "Altamont was a nightmare, Chicago was worse, Kent State was so bad it's still hard to find the right words for it." As an aspiring journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Philip Caputo covered the Kent State shootings, which left four students dead and nine wounded after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on May 4, 1970. Thirty-five years later Philip Caputo returned to Kent State, still searching for the right words to describe how this tragedy ...