The Reason Today’s Students Don’t Protest The War

Posted by | May 4, 2008 23:37 | Filed under: Top Stories


 

Howie Klein’s Down With Tyranny has Thrasher’s post which sums it up.
On Monday, May 4, 1970 at 12:24 PM, twenty-eight Ohio National Guardsmen began shooting into a crowd of student anti-war protesters at Kent State University. In thirteen seconds, the guardsmen had fired sixty-seven rounds and four students lay dead.

Immediately after the Kent State shooting (sometimes referred to as the “Kent State Massacre”), Neil Young composed the song “Ohio” after looking at photos appearing in Life magazine. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young went to the studio and recorded the song which was released to radio stations shortly after the killings. Soon, the lyrics “Four dead in Ohio” became an anthem to a generation.

Crooks and Liars links to a video done a couple of years ago by Bernie Mooney commemorating this date.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvg4n8Txgdc]

Neil Young wrote this in the liner notes for the Decade album, which featured the song Ohio:

“It’s still hard to believe I had to write this song. It’s ironic that I capitalized on the death of these American students. Probably the most important lesson ever learned at an American place of learning. David Crosby cried after this take.”

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