Don Wildman

And that really, you know, not long after this, meaning five years or so, there's going to be OPEC, there's going to be recession.

It's a tough period in American history that sort of one thing led to the next.

But really off the bat, it was the is the protest against Vietnam as far as the domestic side of things.

What happens in Kent State is really the beginning of May of 1970, the first few days leading up to the 4th when the event happens.

But there were a lot of these maneuverings going on politically and locally, really, of different people saying things about how they're going to handle this stuff.

Had the protest been announced?

Was this a big, was there a lot of awareness of what was happening on the campus?

I mentioned this in the opening, how many of these protests are the vocal few are what people are seeing.

And then life is going on around this situation.

You usually have a lot of people observing what's happening.

You have people who are going about their own life.

Sometimes it's in the city streets, but this is on a college campus.

Still the same sort of scene is going on where you'll see this as it's happening.

And of course, these were not designed to be what we now know, the Kent State Killings.

This is a peaceful rally.

This is a nonviolent protest.

They're out and about on the campus doing this thing.

But anyway, it's all talked about as it comes up.

The difference here, as far as my reading could tell me, was that local authorities had said, we see what's coming, we're going to do this, that, and the other thing while this is happening, the local mayor, etc.,

Outside of this community, of course, America isn't hearing about this at the time.