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Thread #21046 Message #222298
Posted By: Hollowfox
03-May-00 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Kent State
Subject: Kent State
I'll be going over to Kent (Ohio) for the thirtieth anniversary rememberence of the May 4th shootings. For those of you that are interested, WKSU will be broadcasting a radio documentary program at noon (Eastern Time), and repeating it at 7:00 PM, and again Sunday, May 7, at 7:00 AM. The WKSU website (see a former thread) can lead you into the university's May 4 website. Say what you will about what happened there that day, one good thing is that the whole thing hasn't been censored or ignored into historical oblivion. Not that the university hasn't tried, on occasion. But they were unable to build a gymnasium on the shooting site, etc. Still, I can't think of any other examples of an annual memorial gathering to commemorate a government killing its own citizens while they exercised their constitutional rights. This memorial gathering is permitted and publicized.