67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence : Means, Howard:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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. Buy 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Means, Howard (ISBN: 9780274799831) from Amazons Book Store. The producing credits are shared by Rawat, Roach, Monica Levinson.
1969, Breathe a sigh of relief, Americans: weve almost made it through the. 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. Stephen Belber is adapting the Howard Means book 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence for the indie project. An Ohio newspaper, the Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier told its readers in October. The next night, the campus ROTC building burned. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the commons. In all, at least 29 of the 77 guardsmen claimed to have fired their weapons, using an estimated 67 rounds of ammunition. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means (Da Capo, 2016, 25.99) In downtown Kent, on May 1, rowdies smashed store windows. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a thirteen-second, sixty-seven-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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