Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Steven Crabtree Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Steven Crabtree Oral History

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Narrator Crabtree, Steven
Narrator's Role Resident of Canton, Ohio, in 1970
Date of Interview 1995-05-04
Description A ten-year-old resident of Canton, Ohio, in 1970, Steven Crabtree describes a conversation he had with his father in the days after the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University. He recalls understanding for the first time what the generation gap was because he and his father had such different reactions to the shootings.
Length of Interview 2:17 minutes
Places Discussed Canton (Ohio)
Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970
Subject(s) Community members--Ohio--Canton--Interviews
Conflict of generations
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
School children--Ohio--Canton--Interviews
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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Provenance/Collection May 4 Collection