[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 72 (Thursday, May 13, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HOUSE RESOLUTION 1272, COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAY 4, 
                 1970, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY SHOOTINGS

                                 ______
                                 

                           HON. BETTY SUTTON

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 13, 2010

  Ms. SUTTON. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of House 
Resolution 1272, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the May 4, 1970, 
Kent State University shootings.
  As a lifelong Northeast Ohioan and a graduate of Kent State 
University, I hold what took place on May 4th close to my heart.
  After the announcement of the U.S. incursion into Cambodia, Kent 
State students began a weekend of anti-war protests that culminated in 
the deaths of four unarmed students on May 4th . . .
  . . . Another nine were injured, including one of my constituents, 
Barberton resident and my very dear friend, Alan Canfora.
  During the height of the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1971, 17 people 
were killed during anti-war protests on college campuses.
  Many of these Vietnam War demonstrations, including those at Kent 
State, pitted students against their peers serving in the National 
Guard.
  Forty years after the Kent State shootings, the tragic events of May 
4th remain a symbol of the Vietnam War and the protests that ensued at 
college campus in Ohio and across the country.
  I commend the recent placement of the site of the May 4th shootings 
on the National Register of Historic Places.
  I also applaud the establishment of the May 4th Visitors Center, 
Memorial, and Historical Walking Tour on the campus.
  May 4th took the lives of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra 
Scheuer, and William Schroeder.
  They will always live on in our memories.
  They represent a generation and a tumultuous chapter of our Nation's 
history that should not ever be forgotten.

                          ____________________