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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence Hardcover - 2016

by Howard Means


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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. At noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that left four students dead and nine wounded, one paralyzed for life. The story doesn't end there, though. A horror of far greater proportions was narrowly averted minutes later when the Guard and students reassembled on the Commons. 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. 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.

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  • Title 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
  • Author Howard Means
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press
  • Date 2016-04-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306823794 / 0306823799
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Ohio
  • Library of Congress subjects Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970, Student movements - Ohio - Kent - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015044809
  • Dewey Decimal Code 378.771

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2016, Page 101

About the author

Howard Means is the author or co-author of ten books, most recently 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence (Da Capo, 2016). Hailed by the Christian Science Monitor as "one of the most heartbreaking books in memory," 67 Shots is being developed as a feature length film by Everyman Pictures (Jay Roach) and Little Stranger Picture (Tina Fey & Jeff Richmond). Means' previous book, Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story (Simon & Schuster, 2011), was featured on NPR and in the weekend Wall Street Journal, and also optioned for TV and/or film. Prior to turning full-time to book-length works, Means was senior editor at Washingtonian magazine, an op-ed columnist for King Features Syndicate, a daily journalist, and in the distant past, a schoolteacher. He began swimming competitively when he was five years old, continued through college, then coached for seven years. Swimming continues to define his life: Pools, rivers, lakes, quarries, oceans are his natural medium. Writing Splash! has been a labor of love.
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