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Lilian Tyrrell Oral History
| Original Record: | http://hdl.handle.net/2374.KENT/855 |
| Title: | Lilian Tyrrell Oral History |
| Author: | Tyrrell, Lilian |
| Description: | The wife of Kent State University School of Art faculty member Brinsley Tyrrell, Lilian Tyrrell describes her experiences during the days surrounding the May 4, 1970, shootings on campus. She describes an antiwar rally on campus on April 31 as well as an event she attended on campus on May 2, the night of the ROTC Military Science Building fire. She describes interactions she had with Guardsmen and conversations she overheard between officers and soldiers on campus in the days preceding the shootings. She was at the rally in the Commons when the shootings took place and relates her eyewitness account of the events. She also describes her daughter's evacuation, by soldiers, from her kindergarten class and discusses her family's experiences during the summer of 1970. |
| Subject: | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; School buses; Civil-military relations--Ohio--Kent; Community and college--Ohio--Kent; Ohio. Army National Guard; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970 |
| Type: | Recording, oral |
| Rights: | Kent State University; http://www.library.kent.edu/page/14062; World |
| Identifier: | May 4 Collection, Box 110; 95-Lillian-Tyrell28938; http://hdl.handle.net/2374.KENT/855 |
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