Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings

Synopsis

From The Precipitous Cultural Conflicts Of The 1960s To The Ever-ranging Battle Over How To Remember The Kent State Incident, The Authors Examine How These Accounts Challenege And Deepen Our Understanding Of The Shootings, The Vietnam Era, Memory, And Oral History. Spanning Five Decades, Above The Shots Not Only Chronicles The Immediate Chain Of Events That Led To The Shootings But Explores Causes And Consequences, Prevailing Conspiracies, And The Search For Catharsis. It Is A Narrative Assemblage Of Voices That Rise Above The Rhetoric - Above The Din - To Show How A Watershed Moment In Modern American History Continues To Speak To Us. -- Back Of Book. Introduction: The Project, / Craig S. Simpson -- Introduction: The Memory / Gregory S. Wilson -- Part One: The Largest Unknown University In The World -- Part Two: An Edge In The Air -- Part Three: A Bullet Is A Drastic Answer -- Part Four: The Divide In This Country -- Part Five: The Beginning Of An Ending. Craig S. Simpson And Gregory S. Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.