Dear President Obama: Please Honor Allison on International Women's Day
Dear President Obama, My sister Allison Krause was one of four students killed by national guard gunfire at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Allison protested the Vietnam war and the military occupation of her campus that day. Here's my writing, also published at Rep Kucinich's request in the ...
Krause to Congress: This Wednesday, December 1st Examine the Kent State Tape
The government crossed the line in the killing of four young peoplein the killing of our Allisonas she rallied against the war on May 4, 1970A civil rights battle on U.S. soil in our timesKent State is personal for us yet important for allRepresentative Dennis Kucinich upon learning of the ...
October 12, New York City, NY – The Kent State Truth Tribunal this weekend heard testimony from forensic audio scientist Stuart Allen that establishes clear orders to shoot live ammunition at unarmed protesting students by the Ohio National Guard. The tape also reveals startling evidence of an altercation with distinct ...
Kent State: The Death of Innocence and the First Amendment
Since the beginning of 2010, the Kent State Truth Tribunal has been focused on collecting and understanding the truth about the circumstances that surrounded the killing of four students and the wounding of nine others at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. As new evidence emerges that ...
Shining a Light on the Kent State Shootings of 1970
This last weekend on August 7 and 8, the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT) traveled to San Francisco to record and preserve narratives from west coast-based original witnesses to and participants in the 1970 Kent State shootings. My sister Allison Krause was one of the four students killed at Kent ...
Victim's sister records stories from Kent State
It happened a long time ago in a state on the other side of the country, but the day Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University during an anti-war protest is still a fresh hurt for Laurel Krause.Her sister, 19-year-old freshman Allison Krause, was one of those ...
Michael Moore to Stream Kent State Truth Tribunal
Filmmaker Michael Moore, on his website, will live-stream the hearings of the Kent State Truth Tribunal on Aug. 7-8.Participants and witnesses to the events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings will convene to offer testimony in San Francisco. That will be live-streamed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at www.MichaelMoore.com. This ...
Unjustified, Indefensible, Wrong
My sister Allison Krause was one of four students killed in the 1970 Kent State shootings. You may have heard about that day in American history - May 4, 1970 - when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the invasion of Cambodia. Some of those killed ...
Kent State shooting victim seeks action based on tape
One of the Kent State University students shot by Ohio National Guardsmen during antiwar protests on May 4, 1970 is seeking a new investigation of the incident, based on evidence uncovered by The Plain Dealer.Alan Canfora said Monday he will ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Ohio Attorney General ...
1970 Kent State shootings become enduring history lesson
Forty springs ago, on the day the Vietnam War came home as it never had before, Mary Ann Vecchio was there. She's the girl in the haunting photo — crying, kneeling over the student's body.That was Kent State University, May 4, 1970, a few days after Richard Nixon, who'd campaigned ...
Kent State Truth Tribunal: Facebook politics
Tuesday, May 4th, marks the 40th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre, where four students were killed and nine others injured by Ohio National Guardsmen. Tuesday also marks the fourth and final day of the Kent State Truth Tribunal, four days of meeting and recording on film eyewitness accounts of ...
Families still search for answers in Kent State tragedy
Laurel Krause looks back on that last weekend with her big sister as a treasure.It was April 1970 and 15-year-old Laurel Krause took a train from Pittsburgh to Ohio to visit her sister, Allison, at Kent State University.They celebrated Allison's 19th birthday on April 23 and had put away their ...
Family Members of Victims Seek Full Accounting for Events that Triggered National Outrage; Call for Healing and “Restorative Justice” Kent, Ohio - On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting America’s bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In a day that changed America, ...
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