Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Laura Dressler Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Laura Dressler Oral History

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Narrator Dressler, Laura
Narrator's Role Student at Kent State University in 1970
Date of Interview 2007-08-03
Description A Kent State University undergraduate art student in 1970, Laura Dressler relates her memories of the events surrounding the shootings on campus. She was on campus on Monday, May 4; she was in the old Student Union near The Commons when the shootings took place. She describes an argument she had with a member of the National Guard a few days after the shootings and also discusses completing her classes after the campus had been closed and meeting Allen Ginsberg during the Creative Arts Festival on campus the following year.
Length of Interview 24:34 minutes
Places Discussed Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970-1971
Subject(s) Armored vehicles, Military
College students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Curfews--Ohio--Kent
Firearms
Helicopters
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Kent State University. Student Union
Ohio. Army National Guard
Students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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Provenance/Collection May 4 Collection