Kent State four dead in Ohio
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children<U+2014>a shocking event burned into...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abrams ComicArts,
2020.
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| Summary: | On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children<U+2014>a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, which will be published in time for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent<U+2014>as relevant today as it was in 1970. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781419734847 1419734849 |
| Author Notes: | Derf Backderf is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist whose books include My Friend Dahmer , Trashed , Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, and The Dissidents . Before focusing on graphic novels, he created the long-running comic strip The City , published in alternative newspapers nationwide. His work draws on first-hand experience to explore working-class life, history, and overlooked systems through dark humor and narrative storytelling. He lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. |
