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Historic Site Tours / On Campus Speaker's Bureau / Annual Commemoration Visiting
Kent State? Request a tour of the May 4 site!
y 1 - 4th...The May 4 Task Force welcomes those who make time to visit the solemn site of this historic event. You may note that while there are many signs telling you where the site is on our campus, you will also quickly realize that there is not much interpretive material there once you arrive. Please feel free to contact us to see if we have someone available for a personal tour. On Campus Speaker's Bureau The May 4 Task Force offers free speakers and programs to orientation classes, dorms other campus organizations to better explain the events that happened on our campus 35 years ago. Please contact us to arrange your program today! Annual Commemoration remembering May 4, 1970...every May 3rd and 4th! Candlelight March - Organized annually since 1971, this silent march leaves the Commons at roughly 11 pm on the evening of May 3rd and winds it's way around campus to rest at midnight in the Prentice Hall parking lot to begin the candlelight vigils. It is lead by the four vigil candles representing the four lost students. This march is both wheelchair and stroller accessible and open to all who wish to remember. Click here to view a map of the path the march takes around campus. Candlelight Vigil - The vigil begins as the May 3rd march ends at midnight on May 4th, and extends until 12:24 pm on the afternoon of May 4th. Also organized since 1971, this 12 hour silent candlelight vigil is held by students, faculty and community members for half hour time slots (reservable each April) in the Prentice Hall Parking Lot. Speakers' Program - Some sort of speaker's program has been observed at noon each May 4th since 1971. (The May 4 Task Force has organized this observance since 1976). The program typically begins with a reading of the chronologies of both the Kent State and Jackson State events. Then the Victory Bell is rung 15 times, (once for each of the Kent State slain, wounded and the two slain students at Jackson State). Following the bell is a program featuring reflections on both current events and the era of the Kent State shootings as well as those lost that fateful day. The university has coined May 4 each year as "Remembrance Day" and cancels classes from noon to 2 pm. So put on your sun screen and join us on the Commons! |
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| The May 4th
Task Force
was founded by Kent State students and victims of the May 4 shootings.
Alan Canfora,
Robbie Stamps,
and Dean Kahler were three of the charter members. The Task Force
felt
that the truth about what happened in May of 1970 had yet to be told
and that the lessons to be learned from the tragedy should be part of a
continuous and living history. Since 1975 it has been the purpose of the M4TF to raise the level of awareness of students, faculty and the general public about the May 1970 shootings and the history of subsequent related events. |
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