'67 Shots' dispels myths about shooting of Kent State students in 1970 [View all]

By Mike Fischer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May. 4, 2016 at 1:24 PM

... Parents of one of the dead — a ROTC student and athlete in the wrong place at the wrong time — received a letter calling their boy a “destructive, riot-making communist” and advising the parents to “be thankful he is gone.”

Vandals slashed a black ribbon that one professor had tied around a tree in his yard to mourn the dead; his kids were stoned by their playmates and he himself endured a neighbor tracking him with a gun as he walked down the street.

Soldiers at Quantico Marine Base cheered when an enlisted man scribbled “Kent State 0, National Guard 4” on a blackboard ...

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