A collection of 69 oral histories related to the May 4, 1970 shootings at
Kent State University has been added to OhioLINK's Digital Media Center
(DMC). The oral histories include many eyewitness accounts of the event and
its aftermath, contributed by people who were students, faculty members, and
City of Kent residents at the time, as well as an account by an Ohio
National Guardsman. This is the sixth collection to be added to the Historic
& Archival Digital Media database
(
http://worlddmc.ohiolink.edu/
History/Login), which is freely available to
anyone worldwide via the Internet.
The Kent State May 4 Oral Histories are available as audio files. Apple's
free QuickTime player is required to listen to the files. A written
transcript is also available for most of the oral histories. Click on the
"full record" link to view the transcript.
The "May 4 Oral History Project" was started in 1990 to preserve personal
histories of and individual reactions to the shootings on the Kent State
University campus in 1970. The collection is maintained and was contributed
to the DMC by the Department of Special Collections and Archives, Libraries
and Media Services, at Kent State University. Visit the department's Web
site at
www.library.kent.edu/specialcollections for more information on this
collection and additional resources on the Kent State shootings.
