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Don Wildman

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American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

And that's why I've gone out of my way to ask you about...

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

you know, what was happening there because you have lots of people doing other things on this class, on this campus at the time.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Nine others we've often forget were physically injured, including one person who was fully paralyzed.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

And that the closest of that crowd was only 20 feet away from those people.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

So it's just one of those situations where so many factors are involved in creating a moment of chaos and mayhem and nothing ever goes well in those situations.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Yeah.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

But the unprecedented quality of the situation calls for a big outcry nationally.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

And the troops argue, some of them, that they were threatened by a sniper.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Where did that even come from?

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

I'm going to read a quote from that report.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Everything you've spoken of...

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

very tersely wrapped up there right in that thing.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Kent State was processed pretty quickly as a nation, wasn't it?

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

I mean, it was seen as wrong right off the bat, wasn't it?

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Right, and further divided on other lines.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

I mean, now you have the generational thing happening, which is, you know, just no one under 30, and over 30.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Liberals and conservatives are no longer talking to each other.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Just to put a number to your point, four million students took part in the nationwide protests.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

I mean, my goodness.

American History Hit
Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

Talk about the wrong result of something you were trying to accomplish.