James W. Sprance Oral History

 
 
 
 

James W. Sprance Oral History

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dc.creator Sprance, James W.
dc.date 2009-10-20T16:32:19Z
dc.date 2009-10-20T16:32:19Z
dc.date 2000-05-04
dc.date 2009-10-20T16:32:19Z
dc.date Feb 24, 2005 12:00:00 AM
dc.date.accessioned 2011-06-08T18:55:09Z
dc.date.available 2011-06-08T18:55:09Z
dc.date.issued 2011-06-08
dc.identifier jimsprance46343
dc.identifier May 4 Collection, Box 129
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2374.KENT/890
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.KENT/890
dc.description James W. Sprance was a junior at Kent State University in 1970 and he discusses his memories of the days surrounding the May 4, 1970, shootings on campus. He describes the military presence on campus: the troops, personnel carriers, jeeps, helicopters, and searchlights that he saw. He relates his memories of Monday, May 4 in detail; he was in the Commons and gives his eyewitness account of the shootings. He was located near the burned ROTC Military Science Building in a crowd of about 500 people that he characterizes as calm; he says that he spent part of the time there discussing a class with one of his professors. He describes seeing tear gas canisters being thrown back and forth, the movement of the Guard, the arrival of the ambulances, the crowd reforming on the hill after the shootings, and Professor Glenn Frank talking to the crowd. He concludes by discussing his experiences as he left Kent after the campus had been closed and some of the difficulties he had that following summer.
dc.format 23:54 minutes
dc.language English
dc.relation ohsprance.html
dc.relation May 4 Collection. Oral History Project
dc.relation http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/oralhistory/sprance.html
dc.rights Kent State University
dc.rights http://www.library.kent.edu/page/14062
dc.rights World
dc.subject Frank, Glenn W.
dc.subject Firearms
dc.subject Kent State University. Military Science Building--Fires
dc.subject Ohio. Army National Guard
dc.subject Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
dc.subject Ambulances
dc.subject Search-lights
dc.subject Military helicopters
dc.subject Tear gas munitions
dc.title James W. Sprance Oral History
dc.type Recording, oral
dc.coverage Kent (Ohio)
dc.coverage 1970

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