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This page is currently under construction - but we have had many requests for up-to-date coverage
of Kent State recently that we have provided this in-progress page.
We hope to have the following articles keyworded and reviewed for ease of research shortly.

April 28, 2006, ClevelandJewishNews.com, by Marilyn H. Karfeld
May 4, 1970, Kent State: Cleveland lawyer looks back

May 2006 - Northern Ohio Live Magazine, By Scott Lax
The  Unapologists

KEYWORDS: Statement of Regret,  apologies,  Judge William K. Thomas, Ohio National Guardsmen, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder,  William K. Thomas,  “letter of regret” , civil case, 1979, letter signed by 28 defendants, Ohio governor James A. Rhodes, Ohio State Law Journal, Steve Thomas, Western Reserve Historical Society, authentic.

May 3, 2006, TV2 News (Kent State Student Television News)
6:30 pm News (Brief reundown of commemoration events)

May 3-9, 2006, The Free Times (Cleveland), By James Renner
The Kent State Conspiraces

KEYWORDS: gunfire, Harold Reid,  Blanket Hill, National Guardsmen, handgun, Terrence Brookes Norman,  FBI, 1970, fired the first shot, protestors, conspiracy theories, May 4, 1970,13 seconds, Dennis Breckenridge, Troop G, student activists, Teamsters,  hippies,  Kent, longhairs, ,President Nixon, Cambodia, Gov. Jim Rhodes,  ROTC, Taylor Hall, John Filo,  Drumm sculpture,  Joseph Lewis,  Larry Shafer, Alan Canfora, Prentice Hall, Jeff Miller, Allison Krause, Sandy Scheuer, William Schroeder, Company A,  Robert James, William Herschler, Donald McKenzie, Dean Kahler, Mary Ann Vecchio, The Kent State Police Department , Kent Hall,  arsonists, Steve Sharoff,  Charles Thomas,  National Archives, Special Collections department at the Kent State library, James Woodring, Portage County Sheriff's Office,  FBI's counter-intelligence program, high-schoolers on LSD, "grassy knoll." If the government wanted to quell grand conspiracies, it could have picked a better way to describe this locationm, at least 29 guardsme, Robert James , Roger Maas, James Farriss,  Richard Shade,  Matthew McManus, fire over their heads, Sgt. Myron Pyror (Pryor died in 2002),  James Pierce,  Pryor, instigate, Students for a Democratic Society, gun, campus police, Patrolman Harold Rice,  Detective Tom Kelley, Detective Robert Winkler, FBI Special Agent Bill Chapin, Akron FBI bureau, Ohio Attorney General's office in 1973, J. Edgar Hoover,  Washington, D.C. Police Department, forgive, murder, parallels between 1970 and today, President George W. Bush,  Neil Young , "Ohio", history repeats,   Iraq war,  Vietnam, Margaret Garmon,  the House Internal Security Committee, 1969,  anti-war movement, 36th Annual May 4 Commemoration, Annual Silent Candlelight Vigil, schedule

May 4, 2006, TV2 News (Kent State Student Television News)
6:30 pm news, includes story about KSU Memorial, and recap of commemoration events

KEYWORDS: 36th Annual Commemoration, Alan Canfora, President Michael Schwartz

May 5, 2006, ClevelandJewishNews.com
Letters/Opinion: Still in shock over Kent-1970

May 5, 2006, ClevelandJewishNews.com
Letters/Opinion: Applauds Karfeld's reporting on Kent State and more

May 5, 2006, DKS, p. 1, by Abbey Stirgwolt
'It's important we never forget this' Friends, community remeber the four lives lost on May 4, 1970

May 5, 2006, DKS, Letters to the editor
May 4 Memories not entirely accurate

May 5, 2006, DKS, Photos
SlideShow : Remember May 4

May 5, 2006, DKS, by Bethany Jones
Candlelight vigil honors four slain students

May 5, 2006, DKS, by Michael Lewis
Peace memorial bears names of fallen soldiers

May 5, 2006, DKS, by Emily Nordquist
Peace  march in downtown Kent

May 5, 2006, DKS, by Bryan Wroten
BUS, NAACP march against expulsions

May 7, 2006, Toranto Sun, by Jane Stevenson
Wail to the Chief

May 8, 2006, ABJ, by Katie Byard
Shootings of May 4 inspire new novel

May 14, 2006, Wired Magazine, by Robert Levine
Devo is Dead.  Long live Devo.

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last updated May 8, 2006