As an Ohioan stationed in England at the time, I vividly recall several of
us at breakfast looking at the Stars & Stripes Kent State coverage. One of
the airmen there I knew had gone to KSU. We thought it odd that this had
happened at KSU, as we thought Ohio University was the real hotbed of
anti-war protest in OH.
Sharon Lee Butcher, MLS, MSO
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Ste C212
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-3212
931-454-4430
Fax: 931-454-5421
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Holly Mills wrote about the Kent State Massacre:
For myself, I didn't learn about May 4 until after my family returned to the
states; we were in the process of moving overseas when it happened, and the
Stars and Stripes didn't seem to spend much time on it, at least as far as I
could tell.
On May 4, 1970 I was with MAG-13 at Chu Lai; Stars and Stripes and AFVN did,
indeed, cover Kent State. I remember nothing of the coverage but the news
was not withheld.
But it is certainly true that the news coverage was different in the
military media than in the rest of the US. One summer night, 1970, a VC
unit overran a Buddhist Orphanage near Chu Lai, decapitated the monk, and
through satchel charges into the bunker with the children. Stars and
Stripes and AFVN carried the story so I was shocked when I returned
Stateside to learn that no one back home had heard anything about it.
I'm not sure what the moral of this is, probably that none of us is quite as
well informed as we think we are.
Paul R. Scott, CA, CRM
Records Management Officer
Harris County, TX
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