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May 25, 2013
What’s On Now?

A Prairie Home Companion®
with Garrison Keillor


Visit a simpler time as Garrison Keillor and friends take listeners on a weekly journey to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota with music, comedy, and the host's beloved monologue.


Also Playing Now:

 WKSU News:
A Prairie Home Companion
 WKSU Classical:
Classical Music with Mindy Ratner


Later Today On WKSU

8:00
Folk Music with Matt Watroba
Join host Matt Watroba in discovering the best from the world of folk music, featuring the work of legends and others devoted to acoustic sounds.


Sunday On WKSU

12:00
Folk Alley with Elena See


4:00
Nightaire℠ with David Roden


5:00
Nightaire℠ with David Roden


What’s On Now?

A Prairie Home Companion®
with Garrison Keillor


Visit a simpler time as Garrison Keillor and friends take listeners on a weekly journey to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota with music, comedy, and the host's beloved monologue.


Also Playing Now:

 WKSU On Air:
A Prairie Home Companion
 WKSU Classical:
Classical Music with Mindy Ratner


Later Today On WKSU's News Channel

8:00
BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks -- anywhere, anytime -- BBC is there.


Sunday On WKSU News

12:00
BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks -- anywhere, anytime -- BBC is there.

5:00
BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks -- anywhere, anytime -- BBC is there.

6:00
The Regina Brett Show
The Regina Brett show revolves around themes of life's transitions and universal issues of home, work, community and finding a personal balance.

What’s Playing Now?

Classical Music
With Mindy Ratner

6:17
Alessandro Marcello: Trumpet Concerto (London Philharmonic Orchestra)

6:32
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" (Chamber Orchestra of Europe)

Also Playing Now:

 WKSU On Air:
A Prairie Home Companion
 WKSU News:
A Prairie Home Companion


Later Today On WKSU's Classical Channel

7:00
Classical Music with Bob Christiansen



Sunday On WKSU Classical

12:00
Classical Music with Bob Christiansen


1:00
Classical Music with Scott Blankenship


4:00
Nightaire℠ with David Roden
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National history, personal narratives • Reconciling past and present • Town and gown tension • Inspiration flows from traedgy • KSU holds nearly two dozen May 4th memorial events • Questions remain • A legacy of peace • New evidence in Kent State cold case • Donna Karan's Urban Zen Foundation comes to Kent College Of Nursing • DOJ refuses to re-open 1970 Kent State shooting investigation • Dean Kahler: visitors' Center helps him move past May  4, 1970 •


National history, personal narratives
Life since May 4, 1970: students, towns-people and guardsmen
For some, the day changed everything. For others, life moved on
History contains facts.

Forty years ago a group of Ohio National Guard fired on students at the Kent State campus, killing four, wounding nine. This is a fact. But most of all, history is stories.

May 4th continues to resonate because of the many stories of lives touched by the event -- students, guardsmen, teachers, and towns-folk. Here are six of those stories -- six memories of the day the Vietnam War came home.




Morning Edition Host
Jeff St. Clair

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kentstate1970.org - WKSU's online archive of May 4 audio

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Bill Brauning under the pagoda at the May 4th memorial, Kent State.
Art Krummel in his Tallmadge studio.
Art Krummel still paints every day.
Art Krummel studied art after his stint with the guard. He's pictured in the studio of his home in Tallmadge.
Jean Booth at her west-side Kent home of 47 years.
 
Bill Brauning at the site of the shootings 40 years after the event.
Jean Booth and her daughters - Kent, Ohio, 1970.
Jean Booth and family, 1970.
Jean Booth models 60's fashion and a bamboo rake. Kent, Ohio.
Juliann B. Dorff , Kent Campus, 2010
Juliann B. Dorff teaches art at Kent State University.
Juliann Bissler Dorff's senior class picture, Kent Roosevelt High School, 1970.
1970 Kent Roosevelt senior prom was held despite weeks of curfew in Kent.
A page from the Kent Roosevelt Rough Rider's 1970 yearbook. Photos taken by a highschool photographer at the Kent State campus on May 4th.



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