May 4, 1970 - there was a protest against the widening of the Vietnam War, by Nixon, at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, which was about 16 miles from where I lived at the time, in Rootstown, Ohio.
My mother was a graduate student at Kent State, majoring in Library Science.
She wasn't there on the day of the protest when the governor of Ohio at the time called in the National Guard, and they shot and killed four people.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young made a song about it called "Ohio."
I used to hear the song on WBCN-FM when I was in college at Boston University. I thought the chorus said, "Forgettin' Ohio" - but it didn't say that, it said, "Four dead in Ohio"...
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