Rick GeissalMay 5, 2023
Kevin Ault

"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.

May 4, 2023 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadAmanda HugankissMay 4, 2023
@kevinault gotta get down to it
Show threadKevin AultMay 4, 2023
@AnOldGuy yes that next verse was too depressing to quote. I grew up not too far from there.
Show threadKevin AultMay 4, 2023
@AnOldGuy to the credit of Kent State, they have remembered their history and honored the memory of those four. https://www.kent.edu/may4visitorscenter/allison-activist
Allison the Activist | Kent State University

Allison the Activist May 4 Visitors Center | Even when she was in the Bluebirds as a little girl, Allison was the leader of the pack.  – Doris Krause* My daughter Allison was not a radical. She was a feeling, caring person who was against war in Vietnam, Cambodia, Israel, or any other place. She was not a member of a radical group, but rather acted as an individual, who felt deeply.  – Arthur Krause*

Show threadKevin AultMay 4, 2023
@AnOldGuy more here from that day.
Show threadAmanda HugankissMay 4, 2023
@kevinault I was 8 years old and living in England at the time. But the song…. I know very well.
Show threadPixiePancakeMay 4, 2023
@kevinault I wish I couldn’t remember this shooting.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023May 4, 2023
@kevinault 😪😪
Show threadAnne MurataMay 4, 2023
@kevinault Was a horrible time and a great time to be young. Kind of like now. 😔 Nixon drove me to expatriate to France in my 20s, I was so naive.
Show threadMatt BlazeMay 4, 2023
@kevinault Such an important, powerful photo, too.
Show threadKevin AultMay 5, 2023
@mattblaze the photographer has been very eloquent about his place in history - "no one is going to believe this has happened." https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/05/my-immediate-response-was-i-dont-know-how-i-missed-getting-shot-john-filo-remembers-may-4-1970.html
‘My immediate response was I don’t know how I missed getting shot’: John Filo remembers May 4, 1970

To mark the 50th anniversary of the May 4 shootings on Kent State University, cleveland.com interviewed shooting witnesses and survivors about what they remember. Hear from John Filo, Kent State senior, now vice president of CBS Photography Operations.

cleveland
Show threadMatt BlazeMay 5, 2023
@kevinault Even coming from an era of some incredibly powerful, high-impact photojournalism, it stands out and endures.
Show threadMark vWMay 4, 2023
@kevinault Rhodes was scum.
Show threadJim DoppkeMay 5, 2023
@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
Show threadKevin AultMay 5, 2023
@jimdoppke thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen that.
Show threadJim DoppkeMay 5, 2023
@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.