KSU shooting survivor dies of heart attack

Jim Russell, 60, hit by Ohio National Guard gunfire May 4, 1970, is first to die of nine wounded students.

Mr. Russell, 60, died of a heart attack Saturday at his home in Deer Island, Ore. He was the oldest of nine students wounded on that spring day 37 years ago and the first of them to die.

``He used to say, `I had five great years at Kent State and one really bad day,' '' his widow, Nelda Pelosi, said Wednesday.

Click on the headline to read the obit by BJ staff wrter Carol Biliczky.

[Source: The Beacon Journal,, Akron, OH, Thursday, June 28, 2007, page B5, col. 5] ]