Today, May 4, is an excellent day to listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Ohio.”
It’s been 40 years.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Lyrics by Neil Young
On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire into a busy college campus during a school day. A total of 67 shots were fired in 13 seconds. Four students: Allison Krause, William Schroeder, Jeffrey Miller, and Sandra Scheuer were killed. Nine students were wounded.
That’s the cropped but unedited version of John Paul Filo’s Pulitizer Prize winning photograph above. That’s Jeffrey Miller on the pavement.
Here’s the news story from The New York Times.