Lost. Without further ado, please welcome howard ruffner. First of, all its great to see a familiar face. Lots of people from pasadena village, relatives, my daughter and his parents are there from where i live. Id like to thank my wife from being here. As most of us know, your spouse is the one who picks up, and kept me organized, kept me going and make sure i did not lose too much of the focus i was going for this. So let me get started. The intention of my book is to let you know more about me from the beginning. Before i intended, and the rest of my story starts with when i enrolled in 1969. Ill give you a glimpse of the campus life i know. The rest of it is about my photography fee, and through may want to may 4th. Thats me in my photos staying next to my mom, looking up at my newest brother. The cleveland press back in those face thought the family thought it would be a good human interest, so the song was sing a song of sixpence. Theyve done a photographer to our home, captured
His book tonight moments of truth is a collection of more than 150 of the photos that surround kent state massacre of 1970 and in which four students lives were lost. So without further ado, please welcome howard ruffner. [ applause ] well, first of all, it is nice to see familiar faces out here. Lots of people from pasadena village and relatives, my daughter is out here with my soninlaw and his parents are here and it is really kind of people from where i live. But most of all i have to thank my wife for being here. My wife laura, if shell just raise her hand. [ applause ] its nice to see people from here, people from pasadena village. Laura kept me organized and made sure i didnt lose focus where i was going with this. So let me get started. The intention of my book is to let you know more about me in the beginning before i attended kent state. My introduction to photography. And then the rest of the story starts with when i enrolled at kent state in march of 1969. And i photographed
applause applause first of all, i have to say, its nice to see familiar faces out here. Lots of people from pasadena village and relatives. My daughter is out here with my soninlaw and his parents are here. Most of all, i have to thank my wife for being here. If she will just raise her hand. As most of you know, whenever you endeavor on a real good project, your spouse is the one who picks up the other stuff, and lark kept me organized, kept me going and made sure i did not lose too much focus of where i was going with this. So let me get started. The intention of my book is to let you know more about me in the beginning before i attended kent state, my introduction to photography, and the rest of the story starts with when i enrolled in kent state in march of 1969. I will give you a glimpse of the campus life i knew before may 4. The rest is about the photography of my experience. Thats me in the photo standing next to my mom looking up at my newest brother, rick. Thats rick. The clev
Ruffner talks about the photos he took on may 4, 1970s, when National Guard troops shot and killed four students at kent state ohio during an. Ntivietnam war protest a student and photographer at the time, one of his photos was used on the cover of like life magazine. Thank you all for coming out tonight. We are hosting photographer howard ruffner, who during his College Years at Kent University was a photographer for the yearbook as well as the newspaper. His book moments of truth is a collection of more than 150 of his photos surrounding the kent state massacre of the 1970s in 4 students lives were lost. [applause] first of all, i have to say, its nice to see familiar faces out here. Pasadenaeople from village and relatives. My daughter is out here with my soninlaw and his parents are. Ere most of all, i have to thank my wife for being here. If she will just raise her hand. [applause] mr. Ruffner as most of you know, whenever you endeavor on a real good project, your spouse is the on
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