Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Arthur Koushel Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Arthur Koushel Oral History

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Narrator Koushel, Arthur
Narrator's Role Student at Kent State University in 1970
Date of Interview 1995-05-02
Description An undergraduate student at Kent State University in 1970, Arthur Koushel discusses his experiences related to the shootings on campus. He was in The Commons area when the shootings took place and relates his eyewitness account of the event. He also describes what Glenn Frank did that day. Koushel discusses two of the students who were shot: he had been a classmate of Dean Kahler's and knew Sandy Scheuer through a fraternity. He describes the burning of the ROTC Military Science Building, the military and police presence on campus, and the difficulties he had trying to leave campus on May 4. He talks about going to Chicago and speaking at rallies at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago in the days following the shootings. He describes his experiences completing his classes by mail, being interviewed by the FBI, returning to campus later in the summer, and testifying before the Scranton Commission (also known as the President's Commission on Campus Unrest), the nine-member panel appointed by President Nixon to investigate the events at Kent State and Jackson State.
Length of Interview 51:54 minutes
Places Discussed Chicago (Ill.)
Kent (Ohio)
Philadelphia (Penn.)
Time Period discussed 1970; 1995
Subject(s) College students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Eyewitness accounts
Frank, Glenn W.
Kahler, Dean
Kegley, Charles F.
Kent (Ohio). Police Dept.
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Kent State University. ROTC Building--Fires
Miller, Jeffrey, d. 1970
Ohio. Army National Guard
Olds, Glenn A.
Scheuer, Sandra, d. 1970
Students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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