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Bibliography of the Kent State shootings

This is a bibliography on the Kent State shootings. External links to reports, news articles and other sources of information may also be found below.

Books

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  • Agte, Barbara Becker, (2012), Kent Letters: Students' Responses to the May 1970 Massacre. Deming, New Mexico: Bluewaters Press ISBN 978-0-9823766-6-9
  • Caputo, Philip. (2005). 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings with DVD. New York: Chamberlain Bros. ISBN 1-59609-080-4.
  • Davies, Peter and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. (1973). The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-27938-1.
  • Eszterhas, Joe, and Roberts, Michael D. (1970). Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State. New York: Dodd, Mead. ISBN 978-1-938441-11-0.
  • Gordon, William A. (1990). The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-582-2. Updated and reprinted in 1995 as Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? Laguna Hills, California: North Ridge Books. ISBN 0-937813-05-2.
  • Giles, Robert (2020). When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press. ISBN 1950659429
  • Grace, Thomas M. (2016). Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-62534-111-2.
  • Hensley, Thomas R. and Lewis, Jerry M. (2010), Kent State and May 4th A Social Science Perspective 3rd Edition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1-60635-048-5
  • Kelner, Joseph and Munves, James, The Kent State Coverup, New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-012282-X.
  • Means, Howard. (2016). 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Boston: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-82379-4.
  • Michener, James. (1971). Kent State: What Happened and Why. New York: Random House and Reader's Digest Books. ISBN 0-394-47199-7.
  • Payne, J. Gregory. (1981). Mayday: Kent State. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. ISBN 0-8403-2393-X.
  • Ruffner, Howard. (2019). Moments of Truth - A Photographer's Experience at Kent State 1970. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1-60635-367-7
  • Simpson, Craig S., and Wilson, Gregory S.. (2016). Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1-606-35291-5.
  • Stone, I. F. (1970). The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished, in series, New York Review Book[s]. New York: distributed by Vintage Books. N.B.: The second printing also includes copyrighted material dated 1971. ISBN 0-394-70953-5.
  • VanDeMark, Brian. (2024). Kent State: An American Tragedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1324066255.
  • Weissman, Norman. (2008). Snapshots USA. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books. ISBN 0-9801894-1-1.

Articles

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Films

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  • 1970: Confrontation at Kent State (director Richard Myers) – documentary filmed by a Kent State University filmmaker in Kent, Ohio, directly following the shootings.
  • 1981: Kent State (director James Goldstone) – television docudrama.[1]
  • 2000: Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (director Chris Triffo, executive producer Mark Mori), the Emmy-Award-winning documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, and relatives of students killed at Kent State.
  • 2007: 4 Tote in Ohio: Ein Amerikanisches Trauma ("4 dead in Ohio: an American trauma") (directors Klaus Bredenbrock and Pagonis Pagonakis) – documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses and a German journalist who was a U.S. correspondent.
  • 2008: How It Was: Kent State Shootings – National Geographic Channel documentary series episode.[2]
  • 2010: Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America (director Daniel Lee Miller) – documentary featuring the build-up to, the events of, and the aftermath of the shootings, told by many of those who were present and in some cases wounded.

Reports

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Websites

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Audio

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Video

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References

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  1. ^ NBC's Emmy award winning docudrama: Kent State[permanent dead link‍] May 4 Archive.org. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  2. ^ National Geographic Channel: "How It Was: Death at Kent State," 2008. Kent State University - Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
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