6/30/2023 0 Comments 67 Shots by Howard Means![]() ![]() Using the university's recently available oral-history collection supplemented by extensive new interviewing, Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there, and skillfully situates it in the context of a tumultuous era. ![]() The producing credits are shared by Rawat, Roach, Monica Levinson. The Kent State shootings were both unavoidable and preventable: unavoidable in that all the discordant forces of a turbulent decade flowed together on May 4, 1970, on one Ohio campus preventable in that every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place. Stephen Belber is adapting the Howard Means book 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence for the indie project. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the Commons. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. ![]() Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. ![]() At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. ![]()
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