"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio."

#OTD in 1970, #KentState students Jeffery Glenn Miller (20), Allison B. Krause (19), William Knox Schroeder (19) and Sandra Lee Schener (20) were killed by the Ohio National Guard.

@kevinault Anything by Jerry Casale of Devo (and of Kent State) on the massacre is essential reading. This article is great but it doesn't have the line that I know I read somewhere: "That was the end of me being a hippie." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/devo-jerry-casale-interview-kent-state-massacre-protest-992651/
Devo's Jerry Casale Looks Back at Kent State 50 Years Later

“I saw somebody in charge yelling at these two lines of National Guardsmen and then he made a hand gesture,” says Casale. “That is when they started shooting”

Rolling Stone
@jimdoppke thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen that.
@kevinault it's so important. He humanizes the victims at every turn, describes the suffering on a gut-wrenching level, *and* details the beginnings of a major, culture-shifting art/musical project! Nixon's presidency is a huge predicate for our current existence, and the origin of Devo is a cultural shadow to it, a vision of a different way of life.