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Bibliography of the Kent State shootings

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This is a bibliography on the Kent State shootings. External links to reports, news articles and other sources of information may also be found below.

Contents

Books

  • Agte, Barbara Becker, (2012), Kent Letters: Students' Responses to the May 1970 Massacre. Deming, New Mexico: Bluewaters Press ISBN 978-0-9823766-6-9
  • Caputo, Philip. (2005). 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings with DVD. New York: Chamberlain Bros. ISBN 1-59609-080-4.
  • Davies, Peter and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. (1973). The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-27938-1.
  • Eszterhas, Joe, and Michael D. Roberts (1970). Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State. New York: Dodd, Mead. ISBN 978-1-938441-11-0.
  • Gordon, William A. (1990). The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-582-2. Updated and reprinted in 1995 as Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? Laguna Hills, California: North Ridge Books. ISBN 0-937813-05-2.
  • Michener, James. (1971). Kent State: What Happened and Why. New York: Random House and Reader's Digest Books. ISBN 0-394-47199-7.
  • Payne, J. Gregory (1981). Mayday: Kent State. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. ISBN 0-8403-2393-X.
  • Stone, I. F. (1970). The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished, in series, New York Review Book[s]. New York: distributed by Vintage Books. N.B.: The second printing also includes copyrighted material dated 1971. ISBN 0-394-70953-5.
  • Weissman, Norman. (2008). Snapshots USA. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books. ISBN 0-9801894-1-1.

    • Articles

  • Listman, John W. Jr. "Kent's Other Casualties", National Guard magazine, May 2000.
  • Stone, I. F. "Fabricated Evidence in the Kent State Killings", The New York Review of Books, Volume 15, Number December 10, 3 1970.
  • When the Gun Smokes and the Press Doesn't Smell It: Media Silence on Kent State Revelations, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
  • WKSU News: Newly-Enhanced Audio Tape May Reveal Order to Fire on Kent State Students, Former Student Who Was Shot Calling for Investigation, Tuesday, May 1, 2007 – with audio links
  • Remembering Kent State shooting victims By Jim Mackinnon, Akron Beacon Journal writer, May 5, 2008 – Scott Ritter speaks at 2008 commemoration
  • Newspaper article archives:
  • Kent State tragedy: Reflecting on May 4, 1970 (the Akron Beacon Journal)
  • Kent State Shootings 40th Anniversary (The Plain Dealer of Cleveland)

    • Films

  • 1970: Confrontation at Kent State (director Richard Myers) – documentary filmed by a Kent State University filmmaker in Kent, Ohio, directly following the shootings.
  • 1981: Kent State (director James Goldstone) – television docudrama.
  • 2000: Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (director Chris Triffo, executive producer Mark Mori), the Emmy-Award-winning documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, and relatives of students killed at Kent State.
  • 2007: 4 Tote in Ohio: Ein Amerikanisches Trauma ("4 dead in Ohio: an American trauma") (directors Klaus Bredenbrock and Pagonis Pagonakis) – documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses and a German journalist who was a U.S. correspondent.
  • 2008: How It Was: Kent State Shootings – National Geographic Channel documentary series episode.
  • 2010: Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America (director Daniel Lee Miller) – documentary featuring the build-up to, the events of, and the aftermath of the shootings, told by many of those who were present and in some cases wounded.

    • Reports

  • Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest ("Scranton Commission"). (1970) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 0-405-01712-X.

    • Websites

  • Kent State University May 4, 1970 Resource Page
  • Kent State University May 4, 1970, Online Newsroom
  • Kent State University 40 May 4 Commemoration Events Listing – 2010 anniversary events at KSU
  • Kent State University, Department of Special Collections & Archives: May 4 Collection
  • May 4 Task Force home page
  • May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy By Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley (KSU professors)
  • Vietnam War Song Project: Kent State Songs By Justin Brummer (UCL)
  • May4Archive.org (maintained by Kent State historian Dr. J. Gregory Payne)
  • FBI file on the Kent State shootings
  • Tom Grace eyewitness account
  • Eyewitness: Howard Ruffner
  • Repository of Oral Histories of the Kent State Shootings
  • Kent State shooting scrapbook
  • Links, photos, music and eyewitness reports about the shootings at Kent State.
  • AlanCanfora.com – personal website of one of the survivors; historical information, photographs, & commentary.
  • May4.Org – A 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity about the Kent State Shootings.
  • Kent State Remembered – A collection of articles regarding the Kent State Protest.
  • Mike and Kendra's Kent State, May 4, 1970 web site – Detailing the commemoration process and related controversies and providing sources for research.
  • Kent State 1970: Information Repository by WKSU
  • National Register nomination form

    • Audio

  • "Sound Montage On Kent State", Morning Edition, NPR, 5/4/2000 (sound montage from NPR)

    • Video

  • Dean Kahler on KSU's May 4 Visitors' Center - short interview with Dean Kahler.
  • On 40th Anniversary of Kent State Shootings, Truth Tribunal Seeks Answers – video report by Democracy Now!
  • Death at Kent State, Nat Geo Online

    • References

    Bibliography of the Kent State shootings Wikipedia
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