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Students on May 4th
  • Reflections
    • The Ground Remembers
    • I Just Want To Listen And Be Sad
    • The Activists
    • Lesson from Blanket Hill
  • Who Would You Be?
  • Culture
    • May 4th Misrepresentations in the Social Media Era
    • Protest Music from May 4 to Today
    • Why Did They Shoot?
  • People
    • Guns on Campus: Through the Kent State Lens
    • The Task Force
  • Timeline
    • Through the Decades
  • About
  • Acknowledgements

Who Would You Be?

By: Megan Ayscue, Lyric Aquino and Chad Flannery

A composite of students, faculty, staff, and vistors walking into the Taylor Hall, home of the Kent State May 4th Memorial. By Sara Donato

This is an interactive story based on the events of May 4th, 1970, at Kent State University and the people who were there. You will choose who you would be as you click through the story. Each story tells a unique version of what happened that day based on composites created from real, first-hand accounts. As you continue through the interactive, make sure to open links in a new tab or window, or the experience will start over when you return.

Sources for this project are here.

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  • Reflections
    • The Ground Remembers
    • I Just Want To Listen And Be Sad
    • The Activists
    • Lesson from Blanket Hill
  • Who Would You Be?
  • Culture
    • May 4th Misrepresentations in the Social Media Era
    • Protest Music from May 4 to Today
    • Why Did They Shoot?
  • People
    • Guns on Campus: Through the Kent State Lens
    • The Task Force
  • Timeline
    • Through the Decades
  • About
  • Acknowledgements

Contact Us

To get in touch with us about this project, email Cameron Gorman at cgorman2@kent.edu or Prof. Jacqueline Marino at jmarino7@kent.edu.

 

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Site Credits

Header photo: Jeremy Brown

Editing and illustration:  Cameron Gorman

Timeline cover photo: Nathaniel Bailey

Home page video:

Editor- Nyla Henderson

Videographers-
Jared Mullen
Samantha Karabec
Zack Davis
Nathaniel Bailey
Nyla Henderson
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  • Reflections
  • Who Would You Be?
  • Culture
  • People
  • Timeline
  • About
  • Acknowledgements