Kent State Documentary - 4 Dead in Ohio (Netflix)

[Common_Tater]

@Ukulele_Ike

Try Nixonland:The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein.

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.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@Senegoid

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.

But yes, the entire remainder of that quarter (Berkeley was on the quarter system then, remember) was totally disrupted.

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.