Death at Kent State: How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America

By Michael Burgan

Book Overview

It didn't seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history. A photojournalism student's photograph of a teen girl crying in anguish over a victim's dead body would win the Pulitzer Prize and become a symbol of the antiwar movement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756554241
• ISBN13: 9780756554248
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Compass Point Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7