KENT STATE UNIVERSITY : Killing of Students 53 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH

FOUR DEAD IN OHIO!

‘We’re finally on our own . . . . .  

Students Allison Krause, 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, and Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, died on the scene, while William Knox Schroeder, 19, was pronounced dead at Robinson Memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna shortly afterward

Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired more than 60 rounds over 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis 

That is STUDENTS! Little more than children at their studies finding out about life! Protesting the war in Vietnam! 

Unarmed students fired on by their own security services. If you step out of line and express your complaints by peacefully occupying a building as protest, they WILL SHOOT YOU! 

Make no mistake. 

Lest we forget!

(Richard Hamilton ‘Kent State’ screenprint 1970) 

Like Richard Hamilton the father of British Pop Art so called I saw this on my TV screen and it haunts me to this day . . . . as it clearly did him! I went on to interview him for my degree in Fine Art at Leicester under Historian Fred Orton and composer Gavin Bryars. Richard and his partner Rita Donagh, became life long friends 

John Filo   -  14-year Old Runaway Mary Ann Vecchio Kneeling Over the Dead Body of Kent State University Student Jeffrey Miller, One of Four Kent State Students Murdered by the National Guard During Anti-Vietnam War Protests May 4, 1970

The photo was taken by John Filo, a Kent State student majoring in photojournalism, 53 years ago today.

“It was because she was 14, because of her youth, that she ran to help, that she ran to do something. There were other people, 18, 19, 20 years old, who didn’t get close to the body. She did because she was a kid. She was a kid reacting to the horror in front of her.” John Filo

The National Guard getting ready , , , against unarmed children