Bibliography of the Kent State shootings explained
This is a bibliography on the Kent State shootings. External links to reports, news articles and other sources of information may also be found below.
Books
- Agte, Barbara Becker, (2012), Kent Letters: Students' Responses to the May 1970 Massacre. Deming, New Mexico: Bluewaters Press
- Caputo, Philip. (2005). 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings with DVD. New York: Chamberlain Bros. .
- Davies, Peter and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. (1973). The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. .
- Eszterhas, Joe, and Roberts, Michael D. (1970). Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State. New York: Dodd, Mead. .
- Gordon, William A. (1990). The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. . Updated and reprinted in 1995 as Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? Laguna Hills, California: North Ridge Books. .
- Giles, Robert (2020). When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press.
- Grace, Thomas M. (2016). Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. .
- Hensley, Thomas R. and Lewis, Jerry M. (2010), Kent State and May 4th A Social Science Perspective 3rd Edition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press.
- Kelner, Joseph and Munves, James, The Kent State Coverup, New York: Harper & Row. .
- Means, Howard. (2016). 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Boston: Da Capo Press. .
- Michener, James. (1971). Kent State: What Happened and Why. New York: Random House and Reader's Digest Books. .
- Payne, J. Gregory. (1981). Mayday: Kent State. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. .
- Ruffner, Howard. (2019). Moments of Truth - A Photographer's Experience at Kent State 1970. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press.
- Simpson, Craig S., and Wilson, Gregory S.. (2016). Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. .
- Stone, I. F. (1970). The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished, in series, New York Review Book[s]. New York: distributed by Vintage Books. N.B.: The second printing also includes copyrighted material dated 1971. .
- Weissman, Norman. (2008). Snapshots USA. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books. .
Articles
- Listman, John W. Jr. "Kent's Other Casualties", National Guard magazine, May 2000.
- Stone, I. F. "Fabricated Evidence in the Kent State Killings", The New York Review of Books, Volume 15, Number December 10, 3 1970.
- WKSU News: Newly-Enhanced Audio Tape May Reveal Order to Fire on Kent State Students, Former Student Who Was Shot Calling for Investigation, Tuesday, May 1, 2007with audio links
- Remembering Kent State shooting victims By Jim Mackinnon, Akron Beacon Journal writer, May 5, 2008Scott Ritter speaks at 2008 commemoration
- Newspaper article archives:
Films
- 1970: Confrontation at Kent State (director Richard Myers) – documentary filmed by a Kent State University filmmaker in Kent, Ohio, directly following the shootings.
- 1981: Kent State (director James Goldstone)television docudrama.[1]
- 2000: Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (director Chris Triffo, executive producer Mark Mori), the Emmy-Award-winning documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, and relatives of students killed at Kent State.
- 2007: ("4 dead in Ohio: an American trauma") (directors Klaus Bredenbrock and Pagonis Pagonakis) – documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses and a German journalist who was a U.S. correspondent.
- 2008: How It Was: Kent State ShootingsNational Geographic Channel documentary series episode.[2]
- 2010: Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America (director Daniel Lee Miller)documentary featuring the build-up to, the events of, and the aftermath of the shootings, told by many of those who were present and in some cases wounded.
Reports
Websites
- Kent State University May 4, 1970 Resource Page
- Kent State University May 4, 1970, Online Newsroom
- Kent State University 40 May 4 Commemoration Events Listing – 2010 anniversary events at KSU
- Kent State University, Department of Special Collections & Archives: May 4 Collection
- May 4 Task Force home page
- May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy By Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley (KSU professors)
- Vietnam War Song Project: Kent State Songs By Justin Brummer (UCL)
- May4Archive.org (maintained by Kent State historian Dr. J. Gregory Payne)
- FBI file on the Kent State shootings
- Tom Grace eyewitness account
- Eyewitness: Howard Ruffner
- Repository of Oral Histories of the Kent State Shootings
- Kent State shooting scrapbook
- Links, photos, music and eyewitness reports about the shootings at Kent State.
- personal website of one of the survivors; historical information, photographs, and commentary.
- A 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity about the Kent State Shootings.
- Kent State RememberedA collection of articles regarding the Kent State Protest.
- Mike and Kendra's Kent State, May 4, 1970 web siteDetailing the commemoration process and related controversies and providing sources for research.
- Kent State 1970: Information Repository by WKSU
- National Register nomination form
Audio
Video
Notes and References
- http://www.may4archive.org/may4movie.shtml NBC's Emmy award winning docudrama: Kent State
- http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/95.html National Geographic Channel: "How It Was: Death at Kent State," 2008.
