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Article: Yale's restrictions on Kent State archive angers former area resident
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- May 8, 2007
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For Paul D. Keane, who researched the 1970 Kent State University
shootings and donated his work to the Yale University Library, it's
a matter of trust.
Kent State officials were sued by the victims and their families
after the May 4 Vietnam War protest, in which National Guardsmen
shot and killed four students and wounded nine others. Other legal
action is possible.
That's why Keane chose Yale, where he received a divinity degree,
for his material. He persuaded Peter Davies, author of "The Truth
about Kent State," to do the same.
"You don't expect Kent State to protect (potential) evidence," he
said Monday. "The whole reason I created this whole Kent State
archive at Yale was because Kent ...