This photo shows student Alan Canfora waving a black flag at Ohio national guardsmen, minutes before they opened fire killing four students and wounding nine others. Several minutes later, after the 76 guardsmen marched away up "Blanket Hill", Canfora was shot and wounded as he reached safety behind an oak tree at the bottom of the hill. Note: this photo clearly the practice field area that is now covered by the gym annex that was built in 1977.
This photograph shows Guardsmen as they leave the practice football field and march toward Taylor hall about two minutes before they opened fire. Alan Canfora is standing in the foreground with his back to the camera holding a black flag. His sister Roseann (Chic) is the woman to the left in the foreground. Note: approximately 12 Ohio National Guard members of Troop G lag behind and look toward students in Prentice Hall parking lot. When Troop G soon marched to the hilltop, they shot and killed four students in the parking lot at the bottom of the hill.
This photograph shows the Prentice Hall parking lot at about the same time as the above photo. Just a few minutes before guardsmen marched up bBlanket Hill and opened fire in the direction of the parking lot and practice football field.
This photograph also shows the Prentice hall parking lot. Students run for cover when guardsmen open fire. Taylor Hall is the building at the far right of the frame. Guardsmen can be seen between the pagoda and the edge of Taylor hall. The students killed were in the parking lot. One of the wounded students, Jim Russell, was shot while standing in the area that is now covered by the gym annex that was built in 1977.
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This photo shows Guardsmen just before turning back 180 degrees and
opening fire.
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This photo shows Guardsmen as they fire 67 shots at unarmed
students.
All 13 victims were full-time students at Kent State University. This
fact
dispoves the myth about "outside-agitators" at KSU on May 4, 1970.
This photograph shows Guardsmen as they walk away from the firing line. A group of students in the foreground offer first-aid to wounded student Joe Lewis who was the person standing closest the guard when they opened fire. Lewis was 60 feet away from the triggermen when he was shot twice.
This photo shows guardsmen as they stand near the body of Jeff Miller after he was shot through the head and killed immediately. Within seconds after the massacre, these members of Ohio National Guard Company C tear-gassed the area near Jeff's dead body. Later, Captain Ronald Snyder of Company C falsely claimed to have found a gun on Jeff Miller's corpse. Snyder later lied under oath about finding the weapon until he finally admitted his lie in 1975. Mary Vecchio is standing near the center of this frame. She is also in a better-known photo near the end of this page.
This photo was taken seconds after the guardsmen killed student Jeff Miller.
This is one of the
best known photographs taken May 4, 1970. It shows young Mary Vecchio
as
she screams over the body of 19-year-old slain student Jeff Miller.
John
Filo, a KSU student yearbook photographer, used a borrowed camera and
earned
a Pulitzer Prize for this memoable image.
This photo shows wounded KSU student Joseph Lewis, Jr., being carried
to an ambulance.
Lewis was shot twice (in the abdomen and leg) but he was fortunate
to survive. Lewis was the closest student to the Guardsmen when they
turned
and fired from the hilltop.Lewis was shot because he was supposedly a
threat.
He merely raised his middle-finger toward the seemingly retreating
group
of guardsmen as they reached the hilltop. For this, he was shot twice.
George Segal sculpture, "Abraham & Isaac", photo #1.
Segal sculpture photo #2.
The three photographs above depict the bronze sculpture by world famous
artist
George Segal that was refused by Kent State
as "too controversial" when it was offered
to KSU leaders in 1978 as a memorial to those killed
and wounded May 4, 1970.
(Photographed by KSU archivist Nancy Birk)
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