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Kent State tragedy 38 years ago today had Miami-Dade connection Posted on Sun, May. 04, 2008 a photo that will go down in infamy.  JOHN FILO / AP Mary Ann Vecchio, 14, screams as she kneels by the body of student Jeffrey Miller on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on May 4, 1970. National Guardsmen had fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine others.
During the melee that ensued on the Kent State campus that day, a senior journalism major, John Filo, snapped a now-famous scene that day had a strong Miami-Dade connection: The photograph showed a screaming long-haired Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of student Jeffrey Miller, who had been fatally wounded. Although she looked older, Vecchio was a 14-year runaway from Opa-locka who had friends on the Kent State campus. In a History Channel video interview years later, Vecchio, now 52, said she instinctively ran toward Miller, who had been shot in the mouth after lobbing a tear-gas canister back at guardsmen who had ordered the demonstrators to disband. ''There was so much blood. I knew he was dead,'' she said of Miller, whom she had met on campus. ``I wanted to help, but there was nothing to do, so I just screamed.'' Filo, who said he was on ''automatic pilot,'' clicked on the moment Vecchio reacted. ''She just let out with a scream. It was an automatic picture,'' he said in the same video interview. Largely fueled by the powerful photograph of Vecchio and Miller, the shootings at Kent State shocked the nation: American soldiers had opened fire on American students on an American college campus. Three of the four students killed had been among those challenging the guard, but one was on her way to class. Nine other students were wounded; one was left paralyzed. College students launched more on campus demonstrations across the country denouncing the student killings and President Richard Nixon's escalation of the Vietnam War, which had sparked the fatal rally. Ten days after Kent State, two more students were killed at Jackson State University in Mississippi while demonstrating the actions of the Ohio National Guard. The Kent State students killed on campus grounds that Monday 38 years ago today were: Allison Krause, Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder. The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song Ohio is in honor of the students. The photograph by Filo went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. Filo works for CBS. Vecchio, one of six children of Frank and Claire Vecchio, a maintenance worker at the Port of Miami and a housewife, was recognized by her father in the photo that ran in major newspapers across the country. She was returned home from Indianapolis, where she went after the shootings. Then-Florida Gov. Claude Kirk, chastised her involvement in the fatal rally telling reporters she had ''been planted there by the Communists.'' Her mother told the New York Times in 1990 that ''people wrote letters telling her daughter that she was responsible'' for the deaths for having taken part in the demonstration and ignoring orders from the guards. ''Can you imagine a 14-year-old girl having to deal with that?'' Claire Vecchio said. Vecchio, who attended Westview Middle School, eventually settled in Las Vegas. At a ceremony at Kent State last year to mark the 37th anniversary of the shootings, Vecchio said: ``We didn't do anthing wrong. We were just voicing our opinion right here on this lawn. We had the freedom to do that. ''
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Student Demonstration Time Based on "Riot in Cell Block Number 9" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller New lyrics by Mike Love. sung by Beach Boys Starting out with Berkeley Free Speech And later on at People's Park The winds of change fanned into flames Student demonstrations spark Down to Isla Vista where police felt so harassed They called the special riot squad of the L. A. County Sheriff Well there's a riot going on There's a riot going on There's a riot going on Student demonstration time The violence spread down South to where Jackson State brothers Learned not to say nasty things about Southern policemen's mothers Nothing much was said about it and really next to nothing done The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for a gun Well there's a riot going on There's a riot going on Well there's a riot going on 'Cause it's student demonstration time America was stunned on May 4, 1970 When rally turned to riot up at Kent State University They said the students scared the Guard Though the troops were battle dressed Four martyrs earned a new degree The Bachelor of Bullets I know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife But next time there's a riot, well, you best stay out of sight Well there's a riot going on There's a riot going on Well there's a riot going on Student demonstration time.
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A tragic time in American history. I was 21 at the time this happened, and I couldn't believe that our Guard could have done something like this.
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kids shooting kids. i was a baby, but i remember because it's my Dad's birthday.
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From the assasination of JFK to the Kent State Killings, were very turbulent times. I grew up watching all this stuff going on; JFK, civil rights, Medgar Evers, George Wallace, Malcom X, Robert Kennedy, ML King, Jr., Kent State, Viet Nam, and the list goes on for that time period. That's a lot to see when you are growing up.
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I was 10 and my mother cried she is very much a pacifist and hates killing and war....It made me angry not because of what was happening (I was to young to see the big picture) but because she was sad. That is my memory.
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