On May 4, 1970 the climate at Kent State University exploded as the Ohio National Guard fired on unarmed fleeing protestors, an action that left four students dead and nine wounded, one of them paralyzed for life.
Three days of rioting and protests preceded the tragedy, creating a sequence of events fully examined by author Howard Means in the new book 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Based on oral histories and original interviews 67 Shots looks back on the tumultuous era, shedding light on the landmark event that no one in America could have predicted, but in retrospect seems inevitable.
Howard Means is an author or coauthor of ten books and former senior editor at Washingtonian magazine.
