{"id":207,"date":"2009-05-01T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:32:50","slug":"a-somber-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/05\/01\/a-somber-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Somber Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_209\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/kent_state.jpg?w=229\" alt=\"Published by Kent Popular Press and Kent Left Studios Forum in 1980.  Cover Photo from the Kent State University Archives.\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/kent_state.jpg 2483w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/kent_state-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/kent_state-783x1024.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Published by Kent Popular Press and Kent Left Studios Forum in 1980. Cover photo from the Kent State University Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On May 1, 1970, over 500 students gathered at the Commons at Kent State University to rally against the invasion of Cambodia the day before. This started a train of events over the next few days that culminated in the death of four students and nine others wounded on what is known as the May 4 massacre.<\/p>\n<p>What has become is a powerful and pervasive symbol of many things to different people, it is at the very least a fascinating event for research. The strength of the Alternative Press Collection at the UConn Archives pertains to the Vietnam era and related unrest with alternative tabloids from the 1960s and early 1970s include <strong><em>Georgia Straight, The Berkeley Barb<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>and <strong><em>East Village Other.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great resource to learn more about the anti-war struggle that sparked the events of May 1.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Alternative Press Collections visit <a href=\"https:\/\/lib.uconn.edu\/location\/asc\/collections\/alternative-press\/\">https:\/\/lib.uconn.edu\/location\/asc\/collections\/alternative-press\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1, 1970, over 500 students gathered at the Commons at Kent State University to rally against the invasion of Cambodia the day before. This started a train of events over the next few days that culminated in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/05\/01\/a-somber-anniversary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-3l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10052,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/10052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}