May 4, 1970 12:34 PM Ravenna, Ohio

if you are old enough, you will remember what happened then at Kent State University. (If not, Wiki is your friend.) Could my memory be right? I have a strong recollection of learning about it that afternoon from looking over someone’s shoulder at a NY Post front page (within 4 hours; it must have been an extra edition). It was then a liberal rag.

R.I.P. Allison Beth Krause, William Knox Schroeder, Sandra Lee Scheuer and Jeffrey Glenn Miller

(Miller grew up in my home town; his mother worked in the Principal’s office of the local high school; my dad was then President of the local school board.)

There are not many images from that time more searing than this Pulitzer Prize-winner (this is the original, uncropped, un-brushed):  one student dead, one 14 year-old wailing, and a bunch of people shocked. Surreal: but no one is running….

Once again, R.I.P. Allison Beth Krause, William Knox Schroeder, Sandra Lee Scheuer and Jeffrey Glenn Miller.