Jerry Lewis, a professor whose name is synonymous with the May 4, 1970, shootings where four Kent State students lost their lives, rang the Victory Bell on the Commons below Taylor Hall in their honor...
Ellen Glickman, the director of the School of Health Sciences at Kent State, hugs her husband, Harold Greenberg, who as a Kent State student was an edtior of The Kent Stater, at the conclusion of the annual...
Jerry Lewis, a witness to the shootings and an emeritus professor of sociology at Kent State, bows his head after ringing the Victory Bell on the Commons in memory of the four students killed at Kent State...
Bill Arthrell, a witness to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State, pats some dirt down as he finishes burying a copy of the Constitution in front of the Victory Bell on the 50th anniversary. Arthrell...
Bill Arthrell, a witness to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State, digs a hole in order to bury a copy of the Constitution in front of the Victory Bell on the 50th anniversary. Arthrell gave an impassioned...
A Kent State police sergeant winds yellow rope that was used to cordon off the immediate area around the Victory Bell on the Commons at Kent State University. Jerry Lewis, an emeritus professor of sociology...
A yellow rope is lifted out of the way so the candles representing the four students killed on May 4, 1970, can be carried to the Victory Bell on the Commons at Kent State. Jerry Lewis, an emeritus professor...
As Kent State University works to remember May 4 and the lives lost, Students of a Democratic Society [SDS] works toward not only remembering what happened 50 years ago, but the student activism that was...
Each year, the night before May 4, there is a candlelight vigil for the students killed in the Prentice Hall parking lot in 1970. While the university canceled the event this year due to COVID-19, people...
Despite the coronavirus and the cancellation of the originally scheduled events for the May 4, 1970 50th Commemoration at Kent State University, a small group still followed tradition and showed up in...
A sign that says “Remember Cambodia” hangs on the tree above the 1971 memorial to the four students killed by Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State campus May 4, 1970. In the background are the...
Candlelight marchers make their way east on Main St. on the edge of the Kent State campus as they commemorate the 50th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings. The coronavirus forced the university to...
