Fri 5/2-Sun 5/4

It’s been 55 years and many of the students who were on the Kent State campus on May 4, 1970, have passed away, but others, including current students, are keeping the memory of that day alive — and with government aggressiveness toward legal immigrants AND U.S. citizens on becoming worse, that day in the past, when the National Guard fatally gunned down four young people in a group of demonstrating students likely seems more urgent that it has any time recently. “The Power of Our Voices” is the theme for the May 4 Commemoration and those voices are being loudly raised now.

Friday evening includes a lecture and book discussion. The annual candlelight walk and vigil, started in 1971, takes place at 11pm Saturday.

On May 4 itself, those who want to remember the events of that day—those killed (Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder) and those wounded (Alan Canfora, John Cleary, Thomas Grace, Dean Kahler, Joseph Lewis, Donald Mackenzie, James Russell, Robert Stamps and Douglas Wrentmore)—will gather on the Kent State Commons at noon for remarks and the ringing of the Victory Bell with a moment of silence at 12:24pm, the time the shooting took place. There will be music on the Commons prior to the commemoration and guided tours of the site at 3pm.

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