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Alan Canfora, May 4, 1970, Kent State University ----
"...it's very hard to ignore that Kent State thing. They were down there, man, ready to do it. You can see them, they're all kneeling there, they're all in the kneeling position and they got their slings tight and they're ready to shoot. And there's this kid, this long-haired kid standin' there with a flag wavin' it... I mean, I cannot be a man, and be a human, and ignore that."
-- DAVID CROSBY, ROLLING STONE magazine interview, July 23, 1970, pp. 22-23.
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"Kent State? May 4? Why do this again? The most eloquent answer came from Alan Canfora. Guardsmen shot Canfora in the right wrist May 4, 1970. The wound has long since healed. So why does Canfora return incessantly to what happened that day? Hasn't he said too much already about what happened to him, to others, to America? Hardly. 'Because they cannot speak for themselves', Canfora said of Schroeder, Scheuer, Miller and Krause, 'I've never thought that I have said enough.' "Because they cannot speak for themselves...These words haunt me and others. Maybe they haunt you, too."
--commentary by Steve Love, Akron Beacon Journal, newspaper August 25, 2000, p. A-14
~ ~ ~ ~ BEWARE: The well-intentioned Wikipedia web site has serious errors regarding Kent State, May 1-4, 1970. Parroting the earlier errors of fiction writer James Michener, Wikipedia is wrong to say the May 1, 1970, student revolt was sparked or affected by a local motorcycle gang. "Bikers" had absolutely nothing to do with anti-war symbolic violence by KSU students in the streets of Kent, Ohio, on the night of May 1, 1970. "Bikers" did not spark the rebellion by throwing objects at Kent police cars, move the crowd of student protesters into North Water Street, lead the crowd of anti-war students south toward the main intersection in downtown Kent, smash bank windows or fight the police in the streets. These were actions taken by anti-war KSU students as a direct result of the criminal President Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia on April 30, 1970. In days, weeks and months ahead, my web site, my memoir book and the web site of the Kent May 4 Center, http://may4.org/ , will offer massive information to refute the vast misinformation and myths offered at errant web sites, books and word of mouth. It is important for people to understand true past history if we are to learn proper lessons to better confront current and present American political history during our ongoing Republican/Bush crisis of war and modern US fascism. Our 1970 anti-war, anti-Republican revolution continues and moves forward to inevitable victory in the 21st century. For accurate May 1-4, 1970, FACTUAL INFORMATION, see: http://alancanfora.com/4.html ~ ~ ~ ~
ATTENTION STUDENTS (and all online researchers): for the very best KENT STATE 1970 FACTS, PHOTOS & LINKS, start here: http://alancanfora.com/11.html
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ATTENTION PUBLISHERS & LITERARY AGENTS:
Keep watching here for details about my own narrative memoir book soon available. I'll reveal sample chapters and my chapters' outline here at alancanfora.com in the days ahead. Here's a brief description of my memoir book: "Alan Canfora's memoir book focuses upon the Vietnam War and Kent State student activism during years leading to May 4, 1970 at Kent State University. Canfora tells his story of life among KSU students as well as his personal radicalization after he arrived at KSU in September of 1968. Vivid descriptions of militant student protests by Kent SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) reveal Kent's radical 1968-69 SDS students planted the seeds of anti-war rebellion which blossomed in May of 1970 in Kent, Ohio. Simultaneously, Canfora also tells the stories of his hometown friends from nearby Barberton--verbatim descriptions from taped interviews--working-class youths who were drafted and suffered during the bloody US war in SE Asia. This memoir reveals anti-war Vietnam veterans in Ohio as a "Trojan Horse" sparking homegrown opposition to a wrongful war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Canfora and his room-mate Tom Grace were among KSU students shot down on May 4, 1970, just ten days after Canfora, Grace and their Kent friends attended the nearby Barberton, Ohio, funeral of Canfora's childhood friend killed in Vietnam. This is the only May 4-insider's book ever published -- a vivid inside description of parallel tragic events in Kent and Vietnam sliding toward chaos and anarchy. Political, social and cultural aspects of life among students at KSU are described as the months unfold before the tragic massacre. An epic tragedy of a generation, this unique memoir offers lessons for both older and younger Americans. While America again slides toward international and national chaos provoked by another Vietnam-style foreign war of wrongful intervention in Iraq, this book is timely indeed." War, Anti-War. Vietnam, Kent State. Get ready...
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US OUT OF IRAQ! STOP THE WAR NOW!
Attention high school students and parents: students have the right to "opt-out" of the cruel attempts of the US military recruiters to put the squeeze on graduating students. See this great web site and awaken everyone that high school students can easily avoid the US military recruiters hanging around US schools like vultures in 2005-2006: http://www.militaryfreezone.org/opt_out
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Not all HOME SCHOOLERS are Republicans-in-training. Check out HOME SCHOOLERS FREE MEDIA -- where progressive kids schooled at home are awake, active and concerned. Recently, a young student named SELBY from Arizona interviewed me on the phone and now you can hear our interview by RealAudio online at: http://homeschoolersfreemedia.org/Shows/counter.html
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Welcome to my educational web site. -- online since September 23, 1997 --
last update: February 24, 2006
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