Death at Kent State: How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America
by Michael Burgan
2021-01-09 07:14:57
Death at Kent State: How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America
by Michael Burgan
2021-01-09 07:14:57
It didn''t seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the count...
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It didn''t seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history. A photojournalism student''s photograph of a teen girl crying in anguish over a victim''s dead body would win the Pulitzer Prize and become a symbol of the antiwar movement.
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