Shots
Kent State and the End of American Innocence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas M Grace (0000-0003-1685-3908, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 253-254 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jax115 |
| OpenAlex | W2680098633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
67 Shots, one of several recent books about the 1970 killings on the Kent State University campus in Ohio, has much to recommend. Howard Means, a retired columnist, has written a lively and generally reliable account of the shootings that convulsed the nation in the wake of the April 1970 invasion of Cambodia by the United States. Means focuses on the time between April 30—when Richard M. Nixon announced the Cambodian operation—and May 4, the day that Ohio National Guardsmen shot thirteen Kent State students, including this reviewer. Means begins not in Ohio, but in Vietnam, identifying the twenty-four American troops killed in action that same day, reminding readers of the impact of mounting U.S. casualties on home front opposition to the war. This was especially true at a working-class university such as Kent State where, by 1970, one of every ten male students was a military veteran. Means aims his book at general readers, but he does draw on a broad range of primary sources, including the May 4 Oral History Collection at Kent State and his interviews with the participants. He also consulted the expansive secondary literature on the deadly shootings
Expansive · Innocence · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Shot (pellet · Sociology · State (computer science · Criminal Law and Evidence · History · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |