Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Vita E. Semeraro Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Vita E. Semeraro Oral History

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Narrator Semeraro, Vita E.
Narrator's Role Employee of Kent State University in 1970
Date of Interview 1990-05-03
Description Vita E. Semeraro worked in the Kent State University Registrar's Office in 1970. She discusses the student employees that she supervised and got to know, some of whom were active in SDS. She describes evacuating her office several times due to bomb threats and one protest on campus that resulted in a large window near her desk being broken by a bottle. She discusses how the Registrar's Office handled requests for access to student records by various law-enforcement and government agencies, including requests for the University records of the four students who were killed in the shootings on campus.
Length of Interview 10:36 minutes
Places Discussed Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970
Subject(s) Demonstrations--Ohio--Kent
Fires--Ohio--Kent
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Kent State University. Office of the Registrar
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Universities and colleges--Employees--Interviews
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