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TexasTowelie

(116,887 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 04:39 AM May 2020

Kent State shootings: Iconic image stokes anti-war sentiment across US (GRAPHIC WARNING)

The first display you see upon entering Gallery I at the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State University expresses a concept initially advanced by famed playwright Arthur Miller.

“May 4, 1970, was the day the war came home.”

And nothing brought the Vietnam War home more dramatically than a photograph taken that day by a Kent State photojournalism major.

You probably already know which photo we’re talking about: Young Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling next to the dead body of student Jeffrey Miller, her hands turned upward in despair, a look of horror on her face.

It was the face that launched a thousand protests.

Read more: https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/kentstate50yearslater/kent-state-shooting-photos-mary-ann-vecchio-impacts-nation/site/cantonrep.com/


Teenager Mary Ann Vecchio screams as she kneels over the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller who had been shot during an anti-war demonstration on the university campus on May 4, 1970. The protests, initially over the US invasion of Cambodia, resulted in the deaths of four protesters, including Miller, and the injuries of nine others after the National Guard opened fire on students. A cropped version of this image won the Pulitzer-prize.
John Filo | Getty Images

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Kent State shootings: Iconic image stokes anti-war sentiment across US (GRAPHIC WARNING) (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2020 OP
A friend of mine in college did an entire course - an independent study - on the Kent State tragedy Rhiannon12866 May 2020 #1
My sister graduated from KSU in 1968. I was at Ohio State when this sinkingfeeling May 2020 #2
So Tragic. So. Fucking. Unnecessary! lastlib May 2020 #3

Rhiannon12866

(222,500 posts)
1. A friend of mine in college did an entire course - an independent study - on the Kent State tragedy
Sun May 3, 2020, 04:43 AM
May 2020

It really defined a generation.

lastlib

(24,933 posts)
3. So Tragic. So. Fucking. Unnecessary!
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:07 AM
May 2020
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