Quotes About Kent State University

The roots of Nixon's political descent lay at least as far back as May 1970, when the shooting of four young Americans at Kent State University began to turn the president's moderate supporters against him.

But what is in many ways most memorable about Robert Canterbury's report are the final two items on his list: "Problem Areas and Lessons Learned" and "Recommendations." Beside both, the highest-ranking National Guard officer at Kent State University on May 4 typed: "None." Of all the thousands of pages of documentation spawned by the shootings, there may be no sadder testament than those two "nones.

I was a student at Kent State University in May of 1970. I was also a musician in a regionally popular band called the James Gang. I was still going to class and stuff, but I was in and out because we were playing a lot.

May 4, 1970—the same day as the horror show at Kent State University in Ohio, where four students were killed