As BlueGal over at Crooks and Liars reminds us, the killing of four students at Kent State University was thirty-nine years ago today.
And in ten days it will be the thirty-ninth anniversary of the killing of two students at Jackson State.
Kent State was Thirty-nine years Ago Today |
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| By: dakine01 Monday May 4, 2009 2:36 pm | |
As BlueGal over at Crooks and Liars reminds us, the killing of four students at Kent State University was thirty-nine years ago today.
And in ten days it will be the thirty-ninth anniversary of the killing of two students at Jackson State.
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thanks for recognizing this day. A friend of mine who eventually became a county commissioner here in Athens Ohio was shot that day at Kent State. He has been paralyzed ever since that day.
Dean Kahler
http://www.state.pa.us/papower…..8;Q=466812
Former Governor Rhodes ordered those soldiers to shoot” Four dead in Ohio” no one likes to talk about that. Rhodes “These students are going to have to find out what law and order is all about.”
http://www.state.pa.us/papower…..8;Q=466812
This has my mind going. Remember when I heard that these students had been shot. I was standing on campus of Univ of Dayton with some friends who were from New Jersey and New York. There had been protest all over college campuses in Ohio that year against the Vietnam War (takes Ohio a while)
Remember folks that evening up and down Brown Street in Dayton near the Unive of Dayton drying their eyes out.
How incredibly fucked up a Governor of Ohio gives full on permission for these National Guard to shoot into the crowd. There is another criminal who walked free
I think this is when I started making posters and putting them up at my high school, where they got ripped down real quick.
Thanks Dakine. A horrible anniversary but we need to remember it.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
It was Kent State that turned me against the Vietnam War (having been in the service and having others in my company happily volunteering for duty weighed on my not being against the war); I ended up organizing -completely spontaneously- my junior college where everyone donned black armbands to reflect what happened.
Too few people hear about this and similar violence perpetutated on citizen’s by the government in the name of ‘peace’.
At least this time they didn’t call out the National Guard.
Youtube has censored/deleted the audio from videos. Here is the audio of ..”right here..get set..point..fire” that led to the four dead in Ohio. The May 4 site that Crooks & Liars links to does not mention this recording because the site’s last entry was in 2006; the tape had not been discovered yet.
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“4/30 KBOO Exclusive: THERE WAS AN ORDER to shoot students at Kent State in 1970
program date:
01/30/2008
program:
Special Programming: Public Affairs
2:23 minutes (2.18 MB)”
http://kboo.fm/node/2983
oops..May 4 does reference this recording further down the page, but some links are dead and MSNBC’s sound is too low to understand.
Funny I was thinking about this and Mai Lai today. I looked up the Mai Lai date thinking it was close. No, March. Thinking a majority of Americans supported ‘the troops’ in both cases. Well I don’t actually have the numbers. An old documentary I saw said 60% of Ohio residents supported the shootings.
Thinking of these things in relation to torture. I would guess 60% support it in some sense. A little because of the ticking bomb to those who absolutely love the idea and given have a chance would gladly do far far worse than most of what we have heard.
There is a limit to politics. There are certainly a lot of things which politics isn’t going to fix.
Thanks for this post. My mother was teaching at Kent at the time. Rhodes was a prick of the first order. His legacy is the shooting of these students, strip mining and paving over the state.