{"id":1045,"date":"2010-05-04T11:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2023-09-21T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:37:46","slug":"remembering-kent-state-may-4-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/05\/04\/remembering-kent-state-may-4-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Kent State: May 4, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the massacre at Kent State University, where Ohio National Guardsmen sprayed tear gas and then opened fire on students protesting the escalation of the Vietnam war into Cambodia.\u00a0 Four students were\u00a0killed, and\u00a0eleven others wounded.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John Filo, a Kent photojournalism student, took an iconic photograph of a\u00a014-year-old runaway, Mary Ann Vecchio,\u00a0kneeling beside the body of 20 year old Jeffrey Miller. \u00a0The photo appeared in the New York Times<\/em>, as well as various other media outlets, and earned a Pulitzer\u00a0Prize for Filo in 1971.<\/p>\n

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Georgia Straight, an anti-establishment alternative newspaper from Vancouver, Canada, published a front page story on the Kent State Massacre. Newspaper from the Alternative Press Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

Following the massacre at Kent State, the faculty wrote a resolution condemning the use of violence on their campus.\u00a0 Kent State University closed for the remainder of the semester.<\/p>\n

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Resolution passed by faculty at Kent State University, May 5, 1970. From the Alternative Press Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hundreds of thousands of university students across the country protested the use of violence by the National Guard, as well as the escalating violence in Vietnam.\u00a0 A\u00a0 campus wide strike was held at the University of Connecticut on May 7, 1970.<\/p>\n

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Flyer for the University of Connecticut Student Strike, May 7, 1970. From the Alternative Press Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the massacre at Kent State University, where Ohio National Guardsmen sprayed tear gas and then opened fire on students protesting the escalation of the Vietnam war into Cambodia.\u00a0 Four students were\u00a0killed, and\u00a0eleven others wounded.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-gR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}