Bibliography of the Kent State shootings


This is a bibliography on the Kent State shootings. External links to reports, news articles and other sources of information may also be found below.

Books

  • Agte, Barbara Becker,, Kent Letters: Students' Responses to the May 1970 Massacre. Deming, New Mexico: Bluewaters Press
  • Caputo, Philip.. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings with DVD. New York: Chamberlain Bros..
  • Davies, Peter and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church.. The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux..
  • Eszterhas, Joe, and Roberts, Michael D.. Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State. New York: Dodd, Mead..
  • Gordon, William A.. The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.. Updated and reprinted in 1995 as Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? Laguna Hills, California: North Ridge Books..
  • Giles, Robert. When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press.
  • Grace, Thomas M.. Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press..
  • Hensley, Thomas R. and Lewis, Jerry M., Kent State and May 4th A Social Science Perspective 3rd Edition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press.
  • Kelner, Joseph and Munves, James, The Kent State Coverup, New York: Harper & Row..
  • Means, Howard.. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Boston: Da Capo Press..
  • Michener, James.. Kent State: What Happened and Why. New York: Random House and Reader's Digest Books..
  • Payne, J. Gregory.. Mayday: Kent State. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co..
  • Ruffner, Howard.. Moments of Truth - A Photographer's Experience at Kent State 1970. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press.
  • Simpson, Craig S., and Wilson, Gregory S... Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press..
  • Stone, I. F.. The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished, in series, New York Review Book. New York: distributed by Vintage Books. N.B.: The second printing also includes copyrighted material dated 1971..
  • VanDeMark, Brian.. Kent State: An American Tragedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company..
  • Weissman, Norman.. Snapshots USA. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books..

Articles

Films

  • 1970: Confrontation at Kent State – documentary filmed by a Kent State University filmmaker in Kent, Ohio, directly following the shootings.
  • 1981: Kent State television docudrama.
  • 2000: Kent State: The Day the War Came Home, the Emmy-Award-winning documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, and relatives of students killed at Kent State.
  • 2007: 4 Tote in Ohio: Ein Amerikanisches Trauma – documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses and a German journalist who was a U.S. correspondent.
  • 2008: How It Was: Kent State ShootingsNational Geographic Channel documentary series episode.
  • 2010: Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America documentary featuring the build-up to, the events of, and the aftermath of the shootings, told by many of those who were present and in some cases wounded.

Reports

. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office..

Websites

  • – 2010 anniversary events at KSU
  • By Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley
  • By Justin Brummer
  • personal website of one of the survivors; historical information, photographs, and commentary.
  • A 501 non-profit educational charity about the Kent State Shootings.
  • A collection of articles regarding the Kent State Protest.
  • Detailing the commemoration process and related controversies and providing sources for research.
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