Talk:Kent State shootings/Archive 3

Kent State Gym and 1977 protests
I wondered why there was no mention in the article about the building of the gym complex on the site of the shootings. The gym was built in a way that partially obscured the path of the guardsmen and the path of the guardsmen's gun shots. The protests and tensions that were re-ignited in Kent because of this seem more significant that what songs, paintings and sculptures were inspired from the shootings. People tried to block construction workers and even bulldozers and other machinery at the site. It was well covered on the Cleveland and national news. Why no mention here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.116.205.162 (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * While there is no direct mention on this article, there is a link in the "See also" section to Tent city. I think for here, the article still has a lot of issues and is pretty long, but by no means complete.  It certainly would be appropriate to be mentioned in the aftermath section.  If a separate article is ever written on the Kent State Shootings Site for the NRHP, a mention should definitely be made there too.  --JonRidinger (talk) 02:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out this oversight - I've added it to the body of the article. Jon, I don't think the article is too long - it is presently about 37K of readable prose, which is well within the guidelines even for Featured articles. And I'd be interested to know in what ways you think it is not complete, as perhaps we can address that. Tvoz / talk 05:01, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note I said the article is "pretty" long. Never said it was "too" long.  I wrote the article for Kent, Ohio and it is 84k for readable prose.  As for incomplete, it's more a matter of how it is organized than a content issue.  I also reference its current rating as B-class.  While being FA hardly makes an article "complete" in terms of total content, it is largely complete in terms of how it's organized and laid out.  Adding the mention of Tent City gives it more content, but the whole article still has a number of lists.  Many of the mentions, like of every play ever written about the shootings, qualify as WP:FANCRUFT in my opinion since they are not notable on their own nor do they really add much to the understanding of the main subject.  Much of the history, particularly the aftermath, needs better organization and flow as it's very difficult to follow.  Only things that the shootings influenced should be mentioned in the aftermath, not great details about everything that happened after the shootings (like Nixon meeting with student activists at the Lincoln Memorial or the extensive use of direct quotes...extensive details about the protest in Washington, for instance, aren't really appropriate for this article since that's not the subject of this article).  There's a lot of text all at once, plus there are still several one-sentence paragraphs.  --JonRidinger (talk) 18:49, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

comparison to the Boston incident
In the time of writing, I have come across a poster that in large and red letters state the date of May 4th 1970, and the comarison is to the incident that took place 200 years (and two months) before. Does anyone have any opinion to that poster? --82.134.28.194 (talk) 10:39, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Political killing?
All of the four killed students appear to have had german or ashkenazi names. Is it possible that they were not coincidentally shot, but carefully picked from among the protesters? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.12.91.242 (talk) 11:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I am of the impression that wiki is here to write aboun already existing theories of conspiricy, not to make up new ones. --82.134.28.194 (talk) 08:14, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Correct. The talk page is not to discuss the topic itself, but to discuss improvements to the article. This is stated at the top of the page too. --JonRidinger (talk) 21:08, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Kent State Four
Why is there no mention of the Kent State Four who were released from the Portage County jail on Wednesday after having served time for trying to organize a "Burn Down Kent State" the previous year? Reportedly the son of a previous Akron mayor, one of the four, called lots of attention to where he was that Friday night. The Kent Stater had a picture of the leader holding his fist high upon their release. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enorthern ed (talk • contribs) 16:17, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This in particular or just the fact the campus had previously seen protest activity could be material for the background section if reliable sources are found. 68.196.132.93 (talk) 01:51, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

bullet hole?
I was wonder if there is any citation on the claim that the hole mention is actually a bullet hole. I've been to the sight and looked at it and it doesn't seem to have come from the right direction.Space fountain (talk) 03:34, 1 November 2013 (UTC)


 * The NRHP nomination forms makes mention of it on pages 8–9 of the PDF (marked in the document as pages 4 and 5). It was determined by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) that the hole is from a .30 caliber armor-piercing bullet fired from an M-1 rifle. --JonRidinger (talk) 16:43, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Gwar Reference
Thought I'd better back up my deletion of the Gwar reference with an extra comment here. The reference to the shootings looked more like immature 'comedy' than intelligent social commentary or satire. It also contrasted badly with the introduction to the Music section which refers to 'musical tributes'. When social commentary becomes so empty and cartoon-like, is it really worth covering when it attempts to use a subject like the KS shootings? It's like someone has taken Jello Biafra and watered him down 1000 to 1.

If anyone wants to revert my edit please read the entire lyrics to the track before doing so: looks like cartoon nonsense to me.--Angela MacLean (talk) 21:32, 22 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I support the removal. Tvoz / talk 07:57, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Security corrupting bot in reference for Steve Miller lyrics
When one clicks on the reference that was provided for the lyrics of Steve Miller (musician)'s Jackson-Kent Blues from his band's Number 5 (Steve Miller Band album) one gets sent to a bot or site that attempts to get the user to consent to change their browser security settings. This is troublesome, so I have removed the reference.Dogru144 (talk) 05:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Completely irrelevant sentence?
Under "Casualties," there's a lone sentence that reads the following: "All those shot were students in good standing at the university."

Why is that there? What relevance does that have at all to the students injured and killed during the shooting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.75.172.62 (talk • contribs) 17:22, August 22, 2014‎


 * My guess is the point being made is the people who were shot and killed were not outside agitators or activists who didn't belong there - they were students in good standing on their own campus, shot and killed or wounded while exercising their Constitutional rights or watching their fellow students doing so. (Same assertion is being made today, forty-four years later in a different protest.) Seems relevant to me - but I'll take a look at the context. Tvoz / talk 22:52, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

45 years
Remembering. Tvoz / talk 17:29, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Where did the students get tear gas canisters?
In this article it states the students threw rocks and tear gas canisters. Isn't it much more likely the National Guardsmen threw (or launched) the canisters? 2602:306:BD87:11C0:F466:C038:6CA6:DF06 (talk) 03:57, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Grigori Rho Gharveyn


 * Yes. Read the article again please. It says: Just before noon, the Guard returned and again ordered the crowd to disperse. When most of the crowd refused, the Guard used tear gas. Because of wind, the tear gas had little effect in dispersing the crowd, and some launched a second volley of rocks toward the Guard's line, to chants of, "Pigs off campus!" The students lobbed the tear gas canisters back at the National Guardsmen, who wore gas masks. Tvoz / talk 05:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Strubbe recording section
I became involved in a minor way with the story of this recording as someone who did an earlier enhancement and analysis of this audio recording for Canfora's group at KSU. I was the second to do so, and my analysis is not notable. I just got a digital copy and did the work on my own and gave him my results, unsolicited. We talked about a lot of things though, by email and telephone. Canfora agreed my enhancement was clearer than their first enhancement, though he disagreed with my analysis of who said what. Fair enough. I do sound, but I'm not an expert in the forensics aspect.

As such, I will not contribute to the article or bother commenting here on my analysis, but I would like to point editors in a few directions:
 * First, consider finding or creating a wider diagram or map of the campus that includes the place where Terry Strubbe's microphone was located, on a window ledge on the first floor of Johnson Hall, near the midpoint along the wall facing the commons. (I think that location can be sourced through the FBI reports.) It's an important part of the story of this recording - the location of the microphone in relation to where the soldiers were - the FBI might have commented on it in their report. The microphone was on the far side of a building a few hundred feet from the soldiers, and in the immediate area around the microphone were counter-protesters (who make up a lot of the voices heard on the recording, and who can be heard cheering when he shooting stops). This is why it's such a challenge to bring out what might be Guard officers shouting orders.
 * Second, keep an eye open for other audio analyses that might come after this one (alluded to in the 2nd source below, and in this article as well, though Canfora mentioned Strubbe was planning to do this 6 years ago).
 * Third, consider balancing the quotes from the audio analysis with responses from someone skeptical, like Ronald Snyder, quoted in the 2nd citation below. Snyder and others say that those are nonstandard wordings for such orders, to put it mildly.
 * Fourth, consider that the analysis in the sources below was "likely" done on a 5th generation recording (a digital recording made from what was "likely" a 4th generation cassette tape that was itself made for use as evidence in civil trials in 1974), not the original tape reel. (I don't know if that can be sourced though. It's just what Canfora told me at the time. He used the word "likely" when telling me what the first analyst had told him.) If Strubbe does get his original tape reel professionally archived and analyzed, more clarity might be available. That could change this whole section.

Links to recording: These two references are already used in the article. They could be linked to point readers to newspaper articles that have the recordings on their site. For example, "To hear the recording, click here [] for part one and here[] for part two.

Do not misread my comments as an endorsement or refutation of anything. I just think the section lacks critical balance. Whether an order was given or not, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of protesters and killed two of them, along with two others who also happened to be in the area. Dcs002 (talk) 09:05, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for these comments. I will look into this as time allows, and hope other editors will as well. Tvoz / talk 01:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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Citation 10
Citation 10 needs to be re-linked with an online source, one that designates the article and not the general overview of "Review - Ohio Council for the Social Studies." Also, the paragraphs referencing this now-offline article seem to vilify the protesters and justify the National Guard's use of violence, and I disagree with any notion of garnering blind patriotism through fact manipulation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Secretclean (talk • contribs) 17:26, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

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New Category
Hi, should we start a new +category for Category:United States military shootings of american civilians? Are there any other articles on Wikipedia that could be placed in this new +cat? Thanks IQ125 (talk) 10:20, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

New Category
Hi, should we start a new +category for Category:United States military shootings of civilians? Are there any other articles on Wikipedia that could be placed in this new +cat? Thanks IQ125 (talk) 10:17, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, I think to have a category shouldn't there be more than one article to populate it?  As such your second question is the right one. Also, do you mean US military shootings of American civilians - the military shoots foreign civilians regularly in wars, raids, conflicts, so why would this be a more meaningful categorization than what we have? There may be a more useful venue for this conversation on the WP:category pages where category specialists hang out.  Tvoz / talk 18:32, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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Included map is wrong
Has Bill Schroeder lying on the grassy hill near the Guardsmen who fired - he like Krause, Miller, and Scheuer was fatally shot in the parking lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C1:400:D7B0:0:0:0:4 (talk) 17:11, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Additional eyewitnesses needed? What the Guardsmen saw would be a good addition.
I've looked around the internet, and have found nothing: It seems this article is insufficient insofar as it only has characterizations and accounts from those who were victims, or those who likely sympathized with the subject of the protests. The essential part of the entire incident, that is "what caused the firing" is left a question mark, which it may very well be. The way to help understand it might be to add an account by a guardsman. There is a great account of this event in "Slouching Toward Gomorrah" if I recall correctly, or it might have been "Closing of the American Mind." Quotes from either one of those sources would be a good idea, which I can add, if I can find my copies that is.

I thought I'd drop these two ideas (#1 Guardsman; #2 Another perspective addition from two referred to books) here and see if anyone had thoughts, comments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sychonic  (talk • contribs) 22:31, August 6, 2019 (UTC)


 * If you find something, could you post suggested wording here on talk please? The article reflects a lot of research, and we've tried to stick with verifiable sourced facts, not opinions and partisan interpretations, so it would be helpful to review any new material here first. (I note, by the way, that there is a somewhat ambiguous comment included from a guardsman about whether there was a command to shoot.) Tvoz / talk 02:10, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Gov. Rhodes Speech and citation 25
It is worrying to me that not only is citation 25 currently defunct, but the quote given in the wiki is paraphrased in such a way that it is far more provoking than in its original context. The quote in the wiki does not resemble how it was said. It seems to be purposefully edited to elicit a greater emotional response. I feel that there should at least be an ellipsis or something to denote the splices, and will make the according edits. Relating to the Disputed Inline In checking the veracity of the quote, I discovered that the line "I think that we're up against the strongest, well-trained, militant, revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America." is not in the transcript of the speech, found here (https://www.library.kent.edu/ksu-may-4-rhodes-speech-may-3-1970) direct from Kent State, or in Gov. Rhode's speech from timestamp 00:00:00 to 00:05:58 found here (https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/items/show/6410), also direct from Kent State. This line should likely be removed, unless the now defunct citation 25 can be recovered and would credit the line to Gov. Rhodes, although it would retain the issue of truly being spliced up in a fashion to maximize emotional reaction. I will defer this issue to be resolved by someone with greater knowledge of Wikipedia MOS and etiquette.

៛MSIS 97.122.172.212 (talk) 00:43, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

An additional note
The wording for the sentence fragments leading up to the above-mentioned line is also fabricated. It is inconsistent with Gov. Rhodes' wording, and changes the connotation of the speaking. ៛MSIS 97.122.172.212 (talk) 03:54, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

I updated the citation - on a quick look the quote looks ok but I'll check further in the next few days. Thanks for bringing the bad ref to our attention. Tvoz / talk 07:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Categories: Murders?
Since there were no convictions of murder I am removing those categories. There are plenty of other categories that properly describe the shooting deaths. Ward20 (talk) 05:25, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * This has been discussed before - you can look in the talk page archives. I personally don't really have strong feelings about categories in general, but conviction is not a requirement for using the term "murder" here. We're not making a legal argument, we're trying to help our readers navigate the encyclopedia easily - that's what categories are for.  Nicole Simpson is correctly described as a murder victim, even though OJ - or anyone else for that matter - was not convicted of that murder.  These were not accidental deaths at Kent State, they were deliberate murders - and that doesn't change whether we add a category that says so or not. The shots were not fired into the air or into the ground - they were aimed and fired into the students.  I'll also call to your attention the part of the article that explains that even Spiro Agnew - Vice President at the time and no friend of the protesters - referred to this as murder. So I don't accept your premise. Tvoz / talk 01:06, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Get the Right Photo - It Exists
The photo you are using is not the original.

It has been heavily edited.

The original image was "redacted" to remove not a fencepost, but the trail of gore running downhill from Miller's blown-open head. Behind Miller and to his right in the photo used for the article you can see just the tail end of a thick layer of congealed blood where "they" quit dodging the photo. Go ahead: look. See how they Walt Disney-fy American history.

You should find that unedited image and put it here. Ask LIFE: they know.

This is from just an old Hippie who watched it all happen.

I'm not hard to find.

Neither is the right photo

Over a week later I ask again. why are you KNOWINGLY using an EDITED photo of an HISTORICAL EVENT? Are you afraid to show the gore? Or just to lazy to go look for the image?

People died, the government lied, and you're part of the cover-up of the true horror if you don't act.

See you in a week. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:184:497F:4E80:0:0:0:F535 (talk) 15:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Please stop impugning motives to the editors here. Wikipedia has strict policies regarding images.  The photo used here, the one that is iconic and won the Pulitzer Prize and therefore clearly the right one to use as the main image, is available to us through fair use doctrine.  If you have  an alternate that meets the encyclopedia's guidelines, then there might be something to discuss. Meanwhile, would appreciate it if you'd stop with your accusations.  Read the policy at Manual of Style/Images and others - that's what governs what we do here, not politics. Tvoz / talk 06:11, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't impugn your motives.

I impugn your historical knowledge and ability to provide non-edited versions of historical events.

Find the right photo and you won't look like you're unwilling stooges.

OK?

This is not political, it's about truth. Which is what you're after, right? If you really cared, you'd contact Life to get an unedited copy. Or you could contact the photographer: he's still alive, you know. And I bet he'd be flattered. His name is John Filo, and he is at https://www.facebook.com/jfilo1. Send him a note. I did.

"Fair use" is not an excuse to not do due diligence or knowingly support historical material that has been edited. Do your job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:184:497F:4E80:0:0:0:F535 (talk) 11:26, 31 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I've been one of the lead editors of this article for 16 years and I really don't appreciate your insinuations -and yes, you are insinuating here. Don't presume you know what I "really care" about regarding this article or any other, and don't tell me what my "job" is. You obviously know very little about how Wikipedia works, so if you want change, educate yourself. As I already said to you above with links to relevant policy information - which you seem to have ignored - read up on Wikipedia policy about images, do your research, get permissions for images that are acceptable under policy, and then come back here and present the image you favor and the proper authorizations and make your case.  Meanwhile stop coming here to insult and dictate what other people should do.   That's not how the encyclopedia works and if you object to the policy, take it up with the photo policy people.  There are many of them - I'm not one of them - and this talk page is not the place to debate if "fair use" is applicable or any other policy matter.  Nor is this a place for you to tell people to do the work you think needs doing.  Do it yourself, and come back.  If it makes sense, if it meets Wikipedia's requirements, if you get consensus here to change a photo or anything else, then that's how changes happen here. Not by bullying and insulting people.  Tvoz / talk 02:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose to merge Kent State shootings in popular culture into Kent State shootings. The contents of the popular culture article are largely duplicated in the "Cultural references" section of this article, and does not seem to warrant its own standalone article. Thoughts? Stonkaments (talk) 22:12, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, going through with the merger per WP:SILENCE. Stonkaments (talk) 16:52, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Aftermath
According to Perlstein (Nixonland, pp 488 et seq) the public reaction- among many adults quoted- to the shooting- was quite positive and approving. In the midst of the conflict- often exacerbated by Nixon’s speeches- described by Perlstein- this is not actually that surprising, as, like last summer, victims were assumed to be violent enemies who had it coming to them. ELSchissel (talk) 03:17, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
 * We address public reaction in the article - it's inaccurate to say that it was anything other than mixed, and we discuss that in several paragraphs. Tvoz / talk 22:50, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Agreed. ELSchissel (talk) 16:06, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

To add to article
To add to this article: mention of the fact that a bullet fired by the Guardsmen was found lodged in the wall of an apartment a mile away. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:04, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have reliable sourcing for this? If so put it here on Talk please. Thanks Tvoz / talk 02:27, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Stanley Karnow
“Karnow further documented that at 4:15 a.m. on May 9, 1970, the president met about 30 student dissidents conducting a vigil at the Lincoln Memorial, whereupon Nixon, ‘treated them to a clumsy and condescending monologue, which he made public in an awkward attempt to display his benevolence.’”

Well, you don’t have to research a doctoral dissertation, to know where Stanley Karnow’s loyalties lay. Whoever inserted that item dishonestly used “documented,” in order to smuggle in his opinion. Karnow didn’t “document,” he stupidly opined, as an obvious Nixon-hater.

When I first saw this incident dramatized by Oliver Stone in his movie, Nixon, I assumed Stone had made it up.

Then I looked it up, and found that not only had President Nixon done that, but that he had done it the way Oliver Stone depicted it.

Pray tell, how many presidents since Nixon have met in the middle of the night, without massive security, to debate their mortal enemies? The answer is, none. 2603:7000:B23E:3056:C884:B510:DE1E:181F (talk) 05:28, 28 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Nor do you need to research a doctoral dissertation to know where Egil Krogh's loyalties lay, at that point in time. We present Karnow's words as a quote and Krogh's counterpoint in the next sentence, which you neglected to mention. Would appreciate it if you would keep your own political commentary out of this discussion. Thank you. Tvoz / talk 15:15, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Map of May 4th shootings
I've seen many maps of the shootings. The map you have included is the most inaccurate I've ever seen. Please look for one that is at least partially accurate. Do your homework. Alan G. Frank 174.104.112.26 (talk) 21:11, 26 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Have you? Instead of insulting hard-working editors here,  why don't you research it and find reliably sourced and accurate maps if you think this one is not and present the source and info  here on the talk page for others to evaluate.  Your comment is unhelpful and shows that you don't understand how Wikipedia works. Thank you. Tvoz / talk 02:51, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

photo
if you are going to show photo, at least do the work involved in find an unretouched version. Unretouched versions show a fence post above the wonman's head and a LARGE STREAM OF GORE FROM THE MAN'S HEAD TO THE GUTTER. Get real: don't use sanitized, disney-fied historical artifacts to soft-side the news.

I know: I lived through this horror.

This one isn't edited

/home/michael/Documents/History/jeff-miller-blood.png

This one is edited, but this angel exists unedited if you bother go look for it. And you should. Otherwise you are part in the wussification of America: "Oh, no: don't deal with reality, it might be nasty!"

/home/michael1/Documents/History/jeff-miller-edited.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:184:497f:4e80::f535 (talk) 15:49, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

"Gerald Casale" "Kent State" "interview"

 * search: "Gerald Casale" "Kent State" "interview"
 * search: "Kent State" "Truth Tribunal" "May 2010" "Kent Ohio"
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzvPTl1gWg can't find provenence [
 * https://www.youtube.com/user/laurelk26 Laurel Krause sister of Allison Krause
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqtfx5_zD9Q can't find provenence
 * Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties Expanded notes
 * 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 05:14, 15 August 2022 (UTC)