I have parked in that parking lot. I have walked across it. Ive talked to my friends while walking across it. Theres something incredibly powerful about something that people encounter daily, having such a wound located there. I really am grateful that i have been able to attend kent state. Ive been able to exist in that space. It fires me up, honestly, every time i see it, to just keep fighting. Because some of the things they were fighting for back then, we are still fighting now. Complacency is not a privilege that we can afford. A law hello, my name is todd dai akin. It is my great honor and raw privilege to service you do not have to be a historian to understand the place of Kent State University and the history of modern america. But i am a historian and i do appreciate both the seminal place of our university and our nations history. And our ongoing responsibility to share this history and the lessons of may four, 1970. It is also my great honor to announce the creation of four
Tonight, american units will attack the headquarters in south vietnam. This key control center has been occupied by the north vietnamese and viet cong for five years, in blatant violation of cambodias neutrality. This is not an invasion of cambodia. The areas in which these attacks are launched are controlled by north vietnamese forces. Our purpose is not to occupy the areas. Once enemy forces are driven out of these sanctuaries and once there military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw. These actions are in no way directed at the security any government that chooses to use these actions as a pretext for hardening relationships with the u. S. Will be doing so on its own responsibility and initiative and we will draw the appropriate conclusions. Now, let me give you the reasons for my decision. A majority of the American People, a majority of you listening to me are for the withdrawal of our forces from vietnam. The action i have taken tonight is indispensable for the continuing s
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 which 4 studentslives were lost. [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. [applause] 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
Dramatized scenes, but was assembled primarily from aerial and combat footage by filmmaker and navy ensign budd boetticher, who directed many navy westerns. Well, now we know where we are going. If you get that about those snakes. I dont mind japs, but snakes. How did the skipper say it . Okie, okie, okie. I heard him. He said okinawa. You know, they say this place looks like the country around frisco. Yeah, but the people look like japs. Frisco. Dont like what is happening. They call it frisco. That my having one o spent my honeymoon up there. Drove up from l. A. Made it in eight hours. 400 miles. Eight hours. What was holding you back . I used to make it to buffalo in new york in six flat. That is 370 miles. With hills. 370 miles. Why, right here we are closer to japan than that. We are just 325 miles from their home office. 325 miles . You heard him. Thats what the old man said. 325 miles. It is closer to work i always felt pretty safe. It is awfully close. Mighty close. Yes, mighty
Give up their role to protect our students. Sod why are they giving up their position to the Ohio Governor at the time. Demonstrations and universities across the country. And they may be as much as 10,000 students deciding to march downtown and they marched out on to interstate 5 and shut down the freeway. But to you, in effect, said and certainly implied that it was not unusual for universities to insist public as well as private to insist on their police forces, the university splis, retaining control over Law Enforcement on the campus. And that is is what the dais was at the university of washington at the time. The president insisted that neither the state patrol nor the Seattle Police department were to come on campus without express permission from the university. And i think that is what happened at kent. They just the mayor gave in very easily. Called governor roads. They sent the troops in and the troops game in on friday. And i was watching the troops roll in under the darkn