To see then-Kent State student Paul Tople’s photos of the day the Ohio National Guard killed four KSU students and wounded nine others, click on http://may4th1970.com/

Paul was a senior at Kent State in the spring of 1970. He was working part-time for the Beacon Journal and was associate editor of the Kent State yearbook.

Ironically, the title of Paul’s first place photo in the 2010 Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Press Club of Cleveland in the spot news category was: “Don’t Shoot.”

That would have been good advice for Gov. James Rhodes, who sent the Ohio Guard to the campus.

Paul became a full-timer at the BJ for a zillion years. But that horrible May 4, 1970 was the start of it all.