Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Sue Misheff Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Sue Misheff Oral History

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Narrator Misheff, Sue
Narrator's Role Student at Kent State University in 1970
Date of Interview 1990-05-03
Description Sue Misheff was a freshman at Kent State University in 1970 and relates her memories of the events surrounding the shootings on campus. She describes the National Guard troops she saw on May 3, 1970, and beatings of students by Guardsmen that she witnessed. On May 4, she was in The Commons near Engleman Hall when the shootings took place and she relates her eyewitness account of the events. She also describes listening to Dr. Glenn Frank in The Commons afterwards and how she felt sitting in The Commons surrounded by armed Guardsmen.
Length of Interview 10:56 minutes
Places Discussed Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970
Subject(s) Demonstrations--Ohio--Kent
Firearms
Frank, Glenn W.
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Ohio. Army National Guard
Students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Tear gas munitions
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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Provenance/Collection May 4 Collection