Beacon Journal photogratpher Paul Tople and staff writer Bill Lilley today. provided a great story on the May 4 anniversary of Kent State University shootings. The piece unfortunately got showed to the community section front because page 1 was devoted to the LeBron James MVP celebration.
The story:
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John Filo and his subject, Mary Vecchio, were reunited Tuesday at Kent State University.
The last time he saw her on the campus was through the lens of his camera as he took his historic picture on May 4, 1970, after the shootings on campus that left four dead and nine wounded.
Filo, then a senior photojournalism major, is now photography director for CBS in New York. Vecchio, then a 14-year-old runaway from Florida, is a respiratory therapist in Florida.
The two were the featured speakers at Monday afternoon's 39th commemoration of the May 4 shootings. The two-hour program on the Kent State Commons, the site of the student demonstrations, was organized by the May 4th Task Force.
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A blog note plus links to May 4 arcxhives
Photographer Paul Topple was a senior at Kent State University in the spring of 1970. He was working part time for the Beacon Journal and was associate editor of the Kent State yearboojk. He helped cover the shootings on May 4.
See Collection of Paul Tople photos
See Chuck Ayers photos and cartoons
Chronology by KSU li brary
Listing of KSU collections on May 4
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