Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Eleanor G. Pawlicki Oral History

Kent State Shootings: Oral Histories

Eleanor G. Pawlicki Oral History

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Narrator Pawlicki, Eleanor G.
Narrator's Role Student at Kent State University in 1970
Date of Interview 1990-05-04
Description An undergraduate student majoring in education at Kent State University in 1970, Eleanor Pawlicki discusses her memories of what she experienced on campus on May 4, 1970. She was in a geography class in McGilvrey Hall when the shootings occurred, and heard numerous ambulances going by. She describes the atmosphere on campus during the week before the shootings as tense: several of her classes had been interrupted by bomb threats. She discusses completing her classes by correspondence and graduating in December, 1970. She recalls a tense moment from the commencement exercises, when James Michener was speaking and a man approached him on stage. She says that she immediately assumed the worst--that this man would kill Michener--explaining that this was the mood at the time.
Length of Interview 3:58 minutes
Places Discussed Kent (Ohio)
Time Period discussed 1970
Subject(s) Ambulances
Bomb threats--Ohio--Kent
College students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997
Students--Ohio--Kent--Interviews
Repository Special Collections and Archives
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