Janis Froelich: A look at May 4, 1970

Janis Froelich, former Beacon Journal reporter and 1968 graduate of Kent State University, has written an extensive article about the May 4, 1970 shootings at the university in which four students were slain.

The lengthy article (more than 10,000 words and more than 300 graphs) was published in the Tampa Tribune. You can read the entire story by clicking on the headline above.

Janis, who covers growth and development in the downtown area for the Tribune, is active in the Kent State Tampa Bay alumni group. She attended the 25th and 30th anniversary memorial observances on the campus and returned 35 years after the shootings in June, 2005.

Her story indicates she tried to cover all the bases of the story. She mulled over police and university records. She talked to neighbors of Terry Norman, to Al Canfora and Guardsmen and others--including children of those involved at the time. She has a quote from John Dunphy, now at the Orange County Register, who covered the continuing story of the tragedy for a decade. The photo is from KSU files.

It is fitting after 36 years to just recall the names of the four slain students: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.