
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 4, 1990                   TAG: 9005040815
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: KENT, OHIO                                LENGTH: Short

KENT STATE DEAD MEMORIALIZED

Kent State University students, many of whom weren't born when the National Guard opened fire during an anti-war protest, marched by the hundreds before the dedication of a memorial to four students killed 20 years ago today.

Hundreds of students milled around the scene where on May 4, 1970, William Schroeder, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer and Allison Krause were shot down.

Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the peace candidate who ran unsuccessfully for president two years after the shootings, was the scheduled keynote speaker.

The university also invited Schroeder's mother and Dean Kahler. A bullet paralyzed Kahler, one of nine students injured in the shootings.

Some student activists who wanted a larger memorial and more involvement in its planning promised a silent protest march during the ceremony.

The $100,000 granite memorial is the most ambitious attempt by the university to commemorate the dead and wounded. Until now, the shootings were marked only by a gravestone-size slab erected in 1971 in a corner of a parking lot where the tragedy occurred.

The lack of a memorial reflected continuing political differences over an event that brought the Vietnam War home.

Some viewed the shootings as an unprovoked act of state violence; others said unpatriotic protesters had finally gotten what was coming to them, although many of the victims were bystanders.

by CNB