![]() ![]() ![]() Means falsely attempts to create a moral dichotomy between those US troops killed in action that day in Indochina and the students killed in Ohio. Only the latter, however, adds anything meaningful to our understanding of the events at on, and even then, only minimally. The two books reviewed here - Howard Means' 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence and Craig Simpson and Gregory Wilson's Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings - both rely heavily on oral history. Grace's excellent Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), reviewed in l/lt's issue 78, marked the first monograph on the subject by an historian. The year 2016 saw a surge in the publication of books on the subject. Despite the abundance of books on the subject, until recently the work of historians has been limited to oral histories, scholarly articles, and chapters in anthologies. T he 50th anniversary of the killing of four students and the wounding of nine others by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University will be marked on. ![]()
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