Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Linda Williams Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Linda Williams Oral History

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Transcription	Show Transcript Print Transcript Back Linda Williams, Oral History Recorded: May 1, 1990 Interviewed by Sandra Perlman Halem Transcribed by Lisa Whalen My name is Linda Williams. My address is [restricted to protect privacy]. My present age is forty six. I'm giving my opinion today because I feel that the other side of the coin should be heard. I was in Robinson Memorial Hospital on May 4th, 1970. My husband was not permitted to visit me because they closed the hospital. This thing not only spilled from Kent, but it spilled into other cities, and Portage County. I was involved because my mother worked in the emergency room the day they brought the students in. And they spit on the doctors; I had friends and relations in the National Guard. I don't feel that the National Guard should have been on campus, but I don't feel the students should have done what they done that day. They shouldn't have done what they done all weekend. Because they rioted Kent city, they burned, they pillaged, and they weren't the saints that the media is trying to make them out. ×
Narrator	Williams, Linda
Narrator's Role	Resident of Ravenna, Ohio, in 1970
Date of Interview	1990-05-01
Description	A resident of Ravenna, Ohio, in 1970, Linda Williams describes being a patient at Robinson Memorial Hospital on May 4, 1970, the day of the shootings at nearby Kent State University. She recalls that her husband could not visit her because the hospital had been closed. She also relates her mother's experience working in the same hospital's Emergency Room when the Kent State shooting victims arrived.
Length of Interview	1:05 minutes
Places Discussed	Kent (Ohio) Ravenna (Ohio)
Time Period discussed	May 4, 1970
Subject(s)	Community members--Ohio--Ravenna--Interviews Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970 Ohio. Army National Guard Robinson Memorial Hospital (Ravenna, Ohio)
Repository	Special Collections and Archives
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Provenance/Collection	May 4 Collection