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Article: Kent State finally ready to remember
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 4, 1990
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KENT, Ohio June Romeo had just come out of English class and
joined with other students in the commons, the grassy area on the
Kent State University campus between Taylor Hall and what used to be
the ROTC building.
Two nights before, the ROTC building had been burned down. Now
100 National Guardsmen surrounded the site.
It was a bright day. A large crowd was listening as speakers
denounced the war in Vietnam and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. When
students defied an order to disperse, the National Guardsmen fired
tear gas into the crowd. Romeo started running. Everyone was
running. Almost 2,000 students. It was wild. The guardsmen
followed them over the hill.
Allison Krause was ...