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Article: TWENTY YEARS LATER, SHADOWS LINGER OVER KENT STATE THE SHOOTINGS ARE HISTORY NOW, BUT THE WOUNDS THEY LEFT BEHIND MAY NEVER FULLY HEAL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 3, 1990
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KENT, Ohio - "Good afternoon, Governor Rhodes."
It's a Monday afternoon in late April, and Kent State
University sociologist Jerry M. Lewis is walking through Bowman
Hall on his way to a course meeting. His words are directed at a
young man sporting a beard, ponytail, stereo headphones and enough
earrings to stock a small jewelry store. The student, Bryan Quinn,
a senior telecommunications major, nods back at Lewis before
turning to a young woman he addresses as "General Canterbury," a k
a Brig. Gen. Robert Canterbury, assistant adjutant general of the
Ohio National Guard.
How disarming, if not to say surreal, are the ways in which
history reinvents itself here.
Canterbury and ...