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Anonymous Oral History
| Original Record: | http://hdl.handle.net/2374.KENT/875 |
| Title: | Anonymous Oral History |
| Author: | Anonymous |
| Description: | This anonymous oral history is by a woman who grew up in Kent, Ohio and whose father was a police officer for the City of Kent in 1970. She discusses the events surrounding the shootings on the Kent State University campus, starting with the unrest in downtown Kent on Friday, May 1. She discusses learning about the shootings on the radio; she heard that police officers had been shot and she feared for her father's life. She describes seeing National Guardsmen standing on street corners in town. She mentions the death threats her father received and that her parents and sister were evacuated from their home in Kent due to a bomb threat. |
| Subject: | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); City dwellers--Ohio--Kent--Interviews; Kent (Ohio). Police Dept.; 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 129; 00-Anonymous-Female-0132389; http://hdl.handle.net/2374.KENT/875 |
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| 00-Anonymous-Female-0132389.mp3 | 20.98Mb | audio/mpeg |
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