Reply #57: Never forget.

[kath]

I lived in the Cleveland area at the time, and was just a few days shy of 14. I remember people saying "they should've shot more of 'em" - this absolutely flabbergasted me. My first memory of feeling utter political and moral outrage. My parents were outraged as well - said that we as Americans tended to look down on "banana republic" type countries where strikers and protesters were shot by the govt, and here it was happening in our own country.

My best friend from high school attended KSU (class of '78), so I've seen that hill and that parking lot (but not recently). heartbreaking.

In the late 70's I met Alan Canfora in the club car while riding Amtrak between Chicago and Pittsburgh, and we spoke for a while. It was around the time (or within a year or so) of the Tent City protest when the university wanted to build a gym over the site of the massacre. Alan is the student who is waving the black flag in the first photo of the OP. He was wounded by a National guard bullet that day.