"Lives interrupted" is the headline for interviews by BJ staffer Carol Biliczky of nine people who were at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 when Ohio Guardsmen opened fire on its own youth. Four students died in the anti-war protest.The series leads with Dean Kahler, a freshman paralyzed by the waist down, now 60 years old. Last year both of his feet were amputated because of vascular problems. There is a photo of Kahler in a wheelchair on the spot where a bullet paralyzed him.
A double-truck on pages A8 and 9 is filled with other stories. Interviews of Glenda Taylor, Larry Rose, Joe Gains and Dean Kahler recalling their experiences are on Ohio.com
Jim Carney has a story with photo on still-thriving Kent State's ROTC training near the building burned by student demonstrators.
Continuing coverage will include a look by Rich Heldenfels of words, music and movies about May 4 and a Mark Price piece on the history of the Victory Bell. Original Beacon Journal stories and photographs are on Ohio.com
Jerry M Lewis, professor emeritus of sociology at Kent State, provides the commentary on page A13. He was a faculty marshal that day and is co-editor of "Kent State and May 4: A Social Science Perspective." The commentary is headlined "Acts of Remembering" and includes a photo of a memorial at the Prentice Hall parking lot which honors the four studengs killed:
Allison Krause
Jeffrey Miller
Sandra Scheuer
William Schroeder
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