Free Download Kent State: An American Tragedy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9R8BYY6 | 2024 | 12 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 351 MB
Author: Brian VanDeMark
Narrator: Daniel Henning
On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans-National Guardsmen sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded with chaotic speed, as guardsmen-many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft-opened fire on the students. Kent State meticulously re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes, and demonstrations exposed the growing rift between the left and the right.
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