Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio add-on past and present

past and present

including solving the mystery of the 1906 Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers championship series game-fixing scandal that nearly killed pro football

APRIL-JUNE 2006

When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969

the long-dead actress who still takes curtain calls

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio add-on past and presentOn May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own childrena shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, 10 year old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a