Paula Tucker’s podcast
is one you shouln’t miss
Former BJ State
Desk reporter Paula Stone Tucker, who in the crowd in 1970 when Ohio National
Guard shot and killed 4 and wounded 9 Kent State students over the Vietnam War,
gave an amazing interview on the Eyewitness History podcast.
Paula, later a clinical
psychologist for Akron Public Schools after two decades in California with Kaiser
Permanente, in the 38-minute, 21-second podcast gave a clear, conconside view
of May 4 and the events leading up to it.
She did this one
with Josh Cohen. It’s an Apple podcast.
Paula was 5 ½ months
pregnant and a reporter checking out the scene with Gov. James Rhodes’ Guard,
most of them the same age as the students they fired at, when the shooting
erupted.
She wrote about
it in her best-selling book, “Surviving: A Kent State Memoir,” which dealt with
both the Kent State shootings and Paula’s personal life at the time.
It has won Florida writers awards, too.
“Surviving” is available on Amazon.com.
You can listen to the
podcast at:
https://podcasts.apple.com/.../eyewitness.../id1617821942
This
podcast is deserving of being added to the Kent State archives about that
terrible time when opposition to the Vietnam War forced America to withdraw its
troops from “that crazy Asian war.”
Paula,
after California, Akron and Tallmadge homes, is living in her domicile in The
Villages, Florida where 150,000 senior citizens live without being in a city.
The Schwartz family owns and controls the sprawling Villages which is in three
counties.
I
spent winters there year after year. Loved it!
Paula
also performs in various bands on her flute, in Florida and, previously, in
Summit County.
Paula’s
brother, Tom Stone, and I are golf partners in senior leagues at Brookledge and
Sunny Hill.
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