| Author | Message | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 3761 Registered: 5-2002 |
Today is May 4. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1263 Registered: 7-2004 |
Great post, Dave. I remember it well. Bill, tgo | ||
| tom_z
Advanced Member Username: tom_z Post Number: 377 Registered: 7-2004 |
Thanks Dave, for bringing this event to our attention. Peace Tom | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 715 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thanks Dave. | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 449 Registered: 5-2002 |
yesterday was May 3, the day the F5 tornado hit Moore Okla, May 3 1999 | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 2385 Registered: 9-2002 |
Brings up memories of sitting together with my brothetr listening to our old recordplayer on the attic studio ... I didn't made the link with the 4th of may, i do though with Ohio ... BTW: my daughter JUlie is now sitting next to me rading out loud his English textes for her exams (last semester it was about Australian history, now about US history. She is now reading me about the "Civil War" in the US (it seems some called it "the war between the states". The stories about the native americans I got already ... There IS a lot to learn about people!!! Paul the bad one | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1264 Registered: 7-2004 |
Paul: On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University who were protesting the Vietnam war and, specifically, the disclosure of Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia. 4 students were killed and 9 wounded ("four dead in O-HI-O"). Ten days later, May 14, 1970, 2 more students were shot to death at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Here's a wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Not one of the proudest moments of American history, IMHO. Bill, tgo | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 802 Registered: 12-2002 |
"And the band plays on"! | ||
| olieoliver
Advanced Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 310 Registered: 2-2006 |
I was on ly 7 1/2 years old but I remember it. | ||
| gare
Advanced Member Username: gare Post Number: 375 Registered: 11-2003 |
Yes, it was a black moment for this country, but we seem to have a few of those don't we. Like the 1968 democratic convention and mayor Dailys 'shoot to kill' order. | ||
| billy_v
Member Username: billy_v Post Number: 52 Registered: 9-2002 |
In 1970, I was the only kid in seventh grade to wear a black armband to school. On 5/4/80, I was at a Dead show at Baltimore Civic Center. Today, I was just at work. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1265 Registered: 7-2004 |
I wonder how many under 40 are aware of the police riot in Chicago in 1968, complete with Dan Rather being pummelled by the police thugs on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on National TV?! 36 years since Kent State. When I look around today I can't help feeling like we should have learned more than we have from those times. Bill, tgo | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 775 Registered: 9-2002 |
I always say this: People who did not live through the Sixties have NO idea what it was like. Incidentally, I thought today was quattro de mayo! J o e y | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 2386 Registered: 9-2002 |
Hey Bill the good guitar one! Thanks for the insight. I was not clear in my reaction but my brothers and I DID know what the song was all about back in that year. The rest of my reaction was to illustrate that we "ovehee" do gather some insight in history on a large basis in school even some things on you brothers on the other side of the pond! However ...I guess that every man or every country has had his pages of history that they rather kept closed. Paul the bad one | ||
| gare
Advanced Member Username: gare Post Number: 376 Registered: 11-2003 |
Chicago does know how to throw a party huh Bill ? And my favorite Dailey quote 'the police are here to preserve disorder' | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 575 Registered: 6-2002 |
"There's nothing as healthy as a fish" Hizzoner on restocking the Chicago River so downtown workers could catch and cook fish for lunch. | ||
| palmann
Junior Username: palmann Post Number: 40 Registered: 6-2005 |
Did not know about that incident, thanks. Gruesse, Pablo |
