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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.

==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 Roberts, Michael D. (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, NY: 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}}.
  • Giles, Robert (2020). When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press. {{ISBN|1950659429}}
  • Grace, Thomas M. (2016). Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. {{ISBN|978-1-62534-111-2}}.
  • Hensley, Thomas R. and Lewis, Jerry M. (2010), Kent State and May 4th A Social Science Perspective 3rd Edition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-60635-048-5}}
  • Kelner, Joseph and Munves, James, The Kent State Coverup, New York: Harper & Row. {{ISBN|0-06-012282-X}}.
  • Means, Howard. (2016). 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Boston: Da Capo Press. {{ISBN|978-0-306-82379-4}}.
  • 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, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. {{ISBN|0-8403-2393-X}}.
  • Ruffner, Howard. (2019). Moments of Truth - A Photographer's Experience at Kent State 1970. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-60635-367-7}}
  • Simpson, Craig S., and Wilson, Gregory S.. (2016). Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-606-35291-5}}.
  • 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}}.
  • VanDeMark, Brian. (2024). Kent State: An American Tragedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. {{ISBN|978-1324066255}}.
  • Weissman, Norman. (2008). Snapshots USA. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books. {{ISBN|0-9801894-1-1}}.

Articles

  • Listman, John W. Jr. "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_200005/ai_n8897826 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.
  • [http://www.wksu.org/news/story/20800 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{{Snd}}with audio links
  • [http://kent.state.tripod.com/ritter.2008.html Remembering Kent State shooting victims] By Jim Mackinnon, Akron Beacon Journal writer, May 5, 2008{{Snd}}Scott Ritter speaks at 2008 commemoration
  • Newspaper article archives:
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430225444/http://www.ohio.com/news/may4th Kent State tragedy: Reflecting on May 4, 1970] (the Akron Beacon Journal)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140926004805/http://www.cleveland.com/kent-state-anniversary/ 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){{Snd}}television docudrama.[https://web.archive.org/web/20030518114057/http://www.may4archive.org/may4movie.shtml NBC's Emmy award winning docudrama: Kent State] May 4 Archive.org. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  • 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: {{Lang|de|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{{Snd}}National Geographic Channel documentary series episode.[http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/95.html National Geographic Channel: "How It Was: Death at Kent State," 2008.] Kent State University - Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  • 2010: Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America (director Daniel Lee Miller){{Snd}}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

  • [http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED083899.pdf 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

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140919005241/http://www2.kent.edu/about/history/May4/ Kent State University May 4, 1970 Resource Page]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324164337/http://may4newsroom.kent.edu/ Kent State University May 4, 1970, Online Newsroom]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20141028142559/http://www2.kent.edu/about/may4commemoration/events-listing.cfm Kent State University 40 May 4 Commemoration Events Listing] – 2010 anniversary events at KSU
  • [http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/ Kent State University, Department of Special Collections & Archives: May 4 Collection]
  • [http://www.m4tf.org/ May 4 Task Force home page]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509131525/http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy] By Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley (KSU professors)
  • [https://archive.today/20140521072616/https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Gershwin/vietnam_war__kent___jackson_state_songs/ Vietnam War Song Project: Kent State Songs] By Justin Brummer (UCL)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20150219024833/http://www.may4archive.org/index.shtml May4Archive.org] (maintained by Kent State historian Dr. J. Gregory Payne)
  • [http://vault.fbi.gov/Kent%20State FBI file on the Kent State shootings]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060424052722/http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/H323Vietnam/Grace_Kent_State.1970.htm Tom Grace eyewitness account]
  • [http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0005/hrintro.htm Eyewitness: Howard Ruffner]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206044125/http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index%3Bc%3Dkentmay4 Repository of Oral Histories of the Kent State Shootings]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090525081046/http://omp.ohiolink.edu/OMP/YourScrapbook?scrapid=16045 Kent State shooting scrapbook]
  • [http://kent.state.tripod.com/ Links, photos, music and eyewitness reports about the shootings at Kent State.]
  • {{Usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20210117212606/https://alancanfora.com/ AlanCanfora.com]}}{{Snd}}personal website of one of the survivors; historical information, photographs, and commentary.
  • {{Usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105230045/https://www.may4.org/ May4.org]}}{{Snd}}A 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity about the Kent State Shootings.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060115161804/http://www.exonews.com/xtra3/kent_state_remembered.htm Kent State Remembered]{{Snd}}A collection of articles regarding the Kent State Protest.
  • [http://may41970.com/ Mike and Kendra's Kent State, May 4, 1970 web site]{{Snd}}Detailing the commemoration process and related controversies and providing sources for research.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140827182308/http://www.kentstate1970.org/ Kent State 1970: Information Repository by WKSU]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140221173332/http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/resource/histpres/docs/nr/kent1.pdf National Register nomination form]

Audio

  • [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1073691 "Sound Montage On Kent State", Morning Edition, NPR, 5/4/2000] (sound montage from NPR)

Video

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9j46uhnJdU Dean Kahler on KSU's May 4 Visitors' Center]{{Snd}}short interview with Dean Kahler.
  • [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/4/on_40th_anniversary_of_kent_state On 40th Anniversary of Kent State Shootings, Truth Tribunal Seeks Answers]{{Snd}}video report by Democracy Now!
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140904111047/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/death-at-kent-state/ Death at Kent State, Nat Geo Online]

References

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