May 28, 2004

Kent State U. Gives Some of Its Vietnam War Papers to Texas Tech Archive

By RICHARD BYRNE

WAR AND PIECES: The killing of four Kent State University students by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, was a pivotal event in domestic protests of the Vietnam War. The incident not only spawned songs like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Ohio," but a vast literature as well -- much of which resides in the university's archives.

Jeanne Sommers, associate dean of libraries at Kent State, says the May 4 collection is more than the "most prominent" and "most

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