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Good evening. Were happy youre here for this even. Ive one of the reference librarians here and were here to listen to howard mean about his new book 67 shots at kent state where the shooting take place, only ten miles from here. Beer excited to have this program of national interest. Mr. Means a biographer and former editor at the washingtonian, Business Books include pakistan the ageneral jerry takes tis play. Johnny appleseed, the man, the myth, and the american story. And also wrote the first biography on colin powell. Join me in welcoming mr. Mean. I also wrote 67 shots. Im going to talk about that tonight instead of 76. Thank you, amanda. Ammann to is also herself a very accomplished novelist, and mystery stories, won an agatha christie. Everybody who was at kent state in 1970, stand up and raise your hand. Okay, this is scary. This is really scary. I wanted to point out jerry back there. [applause] jerry was a great help to me in putting getting contacts and writing the book, an
But that provoked visits from the fbi. My father who was a republican had his taxes audited so it really didnt take much. They were all over the place. Lets not forget j. Edgar hoover was in power. It was his own secret police. It infiltrated a lot of womens groups and they were considered dangerous to the country. Thank you all for coming i would love to sign books. [applause] between the author of the newly released from action book and the interviewer who is a journalist, policymaker or legislator familiar and also with the opposing viewpoint. It airs every saturday at 10 p. M. Eastern and we will take you across the country visiting book festivals offer even and look parties to talk about the latest books. The National Network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books. Book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Booktv and primetime continues with books on global politics. At 8 p. M. On the less you know the better you sleep looking for russia. Politics and mexico and 9 30 on
A man trailing badly in the polls at all that is background noise ultimately to the kent state shootings in the larger horror of vietnam. People died who should not have on both fronts. Antispaces opened that the once been full and both experienced lifetime scars. Heres a final thought, the best thing that could happen for those who still carried the kent state shootings were the vietnam war close to their hearts is to get what beyond who did what when. In the 20 anniversary janice wax so talked about the speaker. Tour my heart out she said i will never forget and id think they are really important lessons in this but if there is no forgiveness there is no healing and murder goes on forever. And thats my talk. Thank you for coming. [applause] i need to listen to you. Please. [inaudible] im sorry, its in the book. They were in akron. He shot a guy come is there any truth to that. There is a photographer he was taken at one point as a sniper in the sniper, did materialize. There was a gu
I wanted to interview him again. I was at cornell at the life magazine on the cover some people said i knew where on the other side of the equation trying to get the black students out of the hole where they had taken over and were heavily armed. D. Last night i was talking to someone in new england and i dont know as a precursor to tonight we were both talking about how we went certain b b directions and i talked about how i used an image of the daily sun with those guys walking out coming out of that and they noted the producer of law andof order now but at that time kind of a radical. So i was just wondering how that and the studies fit into your narrative. Definitely i didnt have to cornell because it happened a little bit before. But i interviewed panthert i inv members who kind of didnt really buy in. I interviewed the member of sncc. I tried to interview Erica Huggins who was part of the new haven nine and so she was fascinating. I tried to weave that into the story, and of cour