Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Anne Andrews Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Anne Andrews Oral History

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Narrator Andrews, Anne
Narrator's Role Student at Kent State University in 1970
Date of Interview 2019-12-03
Description Anne Andrews was a graduate student at Kent State University in 1970. In this oral history, she relates her memories from the day of the shootings and the days and weeks that followed. She discusses hearing the gunfire, seeing National Guard soldiers near her building and pointing their rifles at her and her husband in their home, talking to an FBI agent who was at her apartment building to search for bullet holes, attending a Quaker-sponsored reconciliation and healing session, and participating in the Kent Chorus's memorial performances of Cherubini's Requiem Mass.
Length of Interview 40:12 minutes
Places Discussed Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970
Subject(s) Bullet holes
Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842. Requiem in C Minor
Firearms
Graduate students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Jeep automobile
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Kent State University. Department of Chemistry
Ohio. Army National Guard
Shaw, Robert, 1916-1999
Silver Oaks Apartments (Kent, Ohio)
Students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Women graduate students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
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