Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State

Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State
Author: Eszterhas, Joe
Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1938441117

The dramatic and eye-opening original account of events that shook the nation. At noon on May 4, 1970, a thirteen-second burst of gunfire transformed the campus of Kent State University into a national nightmare. National Guard bullets killed four students and wounded nine. By nightfall the campus was evacuated and the school was closed. A generation of college students said they had lost all hope for the System and the future. Yet Kent State was not a radical university like Berkeley, Columbia, or Harvard. Although a new mood had been growing among the students in recent years, the school was not known for political activity or demonstrations. In fact, exactly one week before, students had held their traditional spring-is-here mudfight. What most alarmed Americans was the knowledge that if this tragedy could occur at Kent State, on a campus made up of the children of the Silent Majority and in the heart of Middle America, it could happen anywhere. But why? how did it happen that young Americans in battle helmets, gas masks, and combat boots confronted other young Americans wearing bell-bottom trousers, flowered shirts, and shoulder-length hair? What were the issues and why did the confrontation escalate so terribly? Would there be future confrontations like the one of May 4? To answer these questions, prize-winning reporters Eszterhas and Roberts, who were on campus on May 4, spent weeks interviewing all the participants in the tragedy. They traveled to victims' homes and talked to relatives and friends; they spoke to National Guardsmen on the firing line and to students who were fired on. By putting together hundreds of first-person accounts they were able to establish for the first time what actually took place on the day of the shooting.

Annual Convention ...

Annual Convention ...
Author: State Association of Superintendents of the Poor (Michigan).
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1620
Release: 1909
Genre: Poor
ISBN:

Medical Record

Medical Record
Author: George Frederick Shrady
Publisher:
Total Pages: 736
Release: 1922
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

North Sea Pilot

North Sea Pilot
Author: Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1910
Genre: Pilot guides
ISBN:

Water Resources Development, 1976

Water Resources Development, 1976
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1977
Genre: Water resources development
ISBN:

The Second Deadly Sin

The Second Deadly Sin
Author: Asa Larsson
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623651409

Rebecka Martinsson's courage to the test once more in her most twisted and unpredictable case yet. After successfully tracking down and killing a rogue bear in the wilderness of northern Sweden, a group of hunters is shaken by a grisly discovery when they dress the bear carcass: human remains in the stomach. Far away in the remote village of Kurravaara, an elderly woman is found murdered with frenzied brutality, crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed. Her young grandson, known to live with her, is nowhere to be found. Only Kiruna prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection between the two events, but thanks to the machinations of a jealous rival, she is dropped from the case. Continuing to pursue answers in an unofficial capacity, and with the reluctant assistance of her friend and police inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka stands alone against a ruthless killer. At the root of it all is a horrifying, century-old crime, the tendrils of which continue to hold the small community in their grip.