# Kent State Documentary - 4 Dead in Ohio (Netflix)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 23, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kent-state-documentary-4-dead-in-ohio-netflix/735584 "2015-10-23T22:42:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kent-state-documentary-4-dead-in-ohio-netflix/735584/21 "2015-10-25T05:02:08Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Try **Nixonland:The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America** , by Rick Perlstein.
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> Fascinating book on many levels, and includes a full report on Kent State.

I’m sure it’s a great book, though I was looking at a little more succinct explanation. A quick look at Wiki sez the ROTC building was surrounded by more than a thousand and burned to the ground. There was all kinds of looting and rioting going on. For the locals to request, and be granted national guard is quite extraordinary.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kent-state-documentary-4-dead-in-ohio-netflix/735584/22 "2015-10-25T07:32:28Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Did I know you there? I was in a big lecture class at Berkeley (it was an intro psychology class in a big lecture hall) when some students burst in at the back door shouting about the killings. IIRC the reaction among the lecture hall full of students seemed mostly apathetic.
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> But yes, the entire remainder of that quarter (Berkeley was on the quarter system then, remember) was totally disrupted.
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> ETA: Oh, and there was tear gas that quarter. Can’t forget about the tear gas.

I wasn’t taking Psychology that term. Yeah, the tear gas stuck around. I remember going into one of the book stores off campus and ran into a residual pocket of tear gas in a back corner of the store.

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