May 5, 2000

Kent State Hits the Funny Pages

By JOEL HARDI

Few who were at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, can forget the searing images of the students' antiwar rally: the tear gas, the National Guard's confused march across the campus amid taunts and rock-throwing. Then, four students shot dead by the guardsmen.

For many, Kent State became a poignant symbol of the terrible hypocrisy of the Vietnam War. But on the 30th anniversary of the shootings, two alumni are commemorating the event in America's funny pages.

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