This morning, Liane Hansen reminded NPR listeners to ponder the decision forty years ago of a unit of the Ohio National Guard to turn and fire scores of .30 caliber rifle rounds into a loosely assembled group of Kent State University students armed with rocks.
To a fifteen going on sixteen year-old man-child struggling to understand America's incursion into SE Asia at the expenses of those lives just slightly more lived than his own, this was an outrageous act of martial law gone apocalyptic. This single event branded Richard Nixon and his operatives criminals and galvanized many millions against whatever was to come from Washington DC henceforth; yet, a majority of voters was convinced by CREEP that Senator McGovern's first 1972 running mate was mentally ill.
How did the Kent State Massacre change your image of America?
To a fifteen going on sixteen year-old man-child struggling to understand America's incursion into SE Asia at the expenses of those lives just slightly more lived than his own, this was an outrageous act of martial law gone apocalyptic. This single event branded Richard Nixon and his operatives criminals and galvanized many millions against whatever was to come from Washington DC henceforth; yet, a majority of voters was convinced by CREEP that Senator McGovern's first 1972 running mate was mentally ill.
How did the Kent State Massacre change your image of America?
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