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Article: KENT STATE THIRTY YEARS LATER.
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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What We're Still Fightin' For
MAY 4, 2000 It was just after noon and the Victory Bell began to ring across the Kent State University Commons. The bell rang fifteen times. Thirty years earlier, Ohio National Guard members had opened fire on a campus Vietnam War protest. Four students were killed, nine were wounded. Two weeks after the Kent State shootings, Mississippi police killed two protesting students at Jackson State University.
The shootings have been commemorated each year since at Kent State, bringing in speakers and performers whose names have become synonymous with activism: Helen Caldicott, Jane Fonda, and William Kuntzler; Peter, Paul, and ...