![]() ![]() Using the university's recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era. The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place. They will profit from reading 67 Shots, both for its insights and its tutorial on dissent and the reaction to it. Some readers may not be fully aware of the Kent State story. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the Commons. 67 Shots is a fine book which adds another, often fresh account of a sad but significant episode in modern American history. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. ![]() ![]() At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. ![]()
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