A few days after the shootings, the novelist James Michener traveled to Kent State in search of understanding about what was happening to his country. In 1971, he published a book about the shootings, in which he referred to the mysterious Mary Ann Vecchio as "The Girl with the Delacroix Face" in a reference to the French Romantic painter.
When we ponder the divisions of the US today, it's important to understand that the divide began quite some time ago.
My school bus driver in grade school from 1972 to 1974 or so was Donald "Scot Mackenzie" who was the student farthest away that was shot. He looked to me like Michael Lange--the Woodstock producer--except he had this scar on his check where the bullet exited. He was from Richboro, PA. His jaw was shattered and wired up for a few months He used to wear that fringe jacket like Neil Young had with his roach clips pinned on it. Here is a quote from him. “I was at the far end of the parking lot, observing what was going on. I turned and ran the opposite way. I remember someone saying, ‘Don’t run, they’re only shooting blanks,’” Mackenzie recalls. A second later, a steel-jacketed bullet hit the back of his neck, missing his spine by about half an inch, and exiting out the middle of his left cheek. I just remember him as a cool gentle soul. Peace Scott.
I lived 30 miles away and spent a lot of time in Kent in the early eighties. Great small town built around a campus. Love these type of campus and small town schools. I remember the AM radio DJ coming on the air and saying if you have children attending Kent State you need to get them home. Old enough to know what was going on at the time and living thru Bobby Kennedy getting killed, moon landings, the riots in LA, Detroit, and a few other cities, Dr. King also being assassinated, the War and Equality Protests, schools being taken over by students, man was it a wild ride for a small stretch in time. Made the Trump years seem like a small annoyance. Nothing compares in the rest of my life than that 67-70 capsule of time in history, and I was 7-11years old and have not even gotten to the drug part. Those events took hold of everything in this country like nothing else that I have seen. This was the event that brought parents to the kids side of ending the war in Vietnam.
^ That's a great and thoughtful post there, Fabes, about an amazing time in history.
Also in that window was a little event over in Bethel, N.Y. that gave the next generation some hope that there are people who feel that war is not the answer (a la Marvin Gaye), and that there would still be a faction of people that can be kind and not insanely greedy.
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I read this earlier today.
I read this earlier today. How close her and the photographer were in time, space, and maybe cause, and how different it spun both of their lives.
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A few days after the
A few days after the shootings, the novelist James Michener traveled to Kent State in search of understanding about what was happening to his country. In 1971, he published a book about the shootings, in which he referred to the mysterious Mary Ann Vecchio as "The Girl with the Delacroix Face" in a reference to the French Romantic painter.
When we ponder the divisions of the US today, it's important to understand that the divide began quite some time ago.
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So true. What a shit stain
So true Fabes. What a shit stain SOME Americans were back then!
All she did was cry and be in horror at what happened to that innocent murdered boy and she was the culprit!? Disgusting!
And it haunted her for life. Sad. But to me she's a hero.
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My school bus driver in grade
My school bus driver in grade school from 1972 to 1974 or so was Donald "Scot Mackenzie" who was the student farthest away that was shot. He looked to me like Michael Lange--the Woodstock producer--except he had this scar on his check where the bullet exited. He was from Richboro, PA. His jaw was shattered and wired up for a few months He used to wear that fringe jacket like Neil Young had with his roach clips pinned on it. Here is a quote from him. “I was at the far end of the parking lot, observing what was going on. I turned and ran the opposite way. I remember someone saying, ‘Don’t run, they’re only shooting blanks,’” Mackenzie recalls. A second later, a steel-jacketed bullet hit the back of his neck, missing his spine by about half an inch, and exiting out the middle of his left cheek. I just remember him as a cool gentle soul. Peace Scott.
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I lived 30 miles away and
I lived 30 miles away and spent a lot of time in Kent in the early eighties. Great small town built around a campus. Love these type of campus and small town schools. I remember the AM radio DJ coming on the air and saying if you have children attending Kent State you need to get them home. Old enough to know what was going on at the time and living thru Bobby Kennedy getting killed, moon landings, the riots in LA, Detroit, and a few other cities, Dr. King also being assassinated, the War and Equality Protests, schools being taken over by students, man was it a wild ride for a small stretch in time. Made the Trump years seem like a small annoyance. Nothing compares in the rest of my life than that 67-70 capsule of time in history, and I was 7-11years old and have not even gotten to the drug part. Those events took hold of everything in this country like nothing else that I have seen. This was the event that brought parents to the kids side of ending the war in Vietnam.
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^ That's a great and
^ That's a great and thoughtful post there, Fabes, about an amazing time in history.
Also in that window was a little event over in Bethel, N.Y. that gave the next generation some hope that there are people who feel that war is not the answer (a la Marvin Gaye), and that there would still be a faction of people that can be kind and not insanely greedy.
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Kudos to Max Yasgur.
Kudos to Max Yasgur.