Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Anonymous Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Anonymous Oral History

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Narrator Anonymous
Narrator's Role Resident of Kent, Ohio, in 1970
Date of Interview 2000
Description This anonymous oral history is by a woman who grew up in Kent, Ohio and whose father was a police officer for the City of Kent in 1970. She discusses the events surrounding the shootings on the Kent State University campus, starting with the unrest in downtown Kent on Friday, May 1. She discusses learning about the shootings on the radio; she heard that police officers had been shot and she feared for her father's life. She describes seeing National Guardsmen standing on street corners in town. She mentions the death threats her father received and that her parents and sister were evacuated from their home in Kent due to a bomb threat.
Length of Interview 21:51 minutes
Places Discussed Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970
Subject(s) Community members--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Kent (Ohio). Police Dept.
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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Format of Original audio cassette
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Provenance/Collection May 4 Collection