{"id":207,"date":"2009-05-01T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-05-01T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T18:33:17","slug":"a-somber-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/05\/01\/a-somber-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Somber Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_209\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/kent_state.jpg?w=229\" alt=\"Published by Kent Popular Press and Kent Left Studios Forum in 1980.  Cover Photo from the Kent State University Archives.\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/kent_state.jpg 2483w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/kent_state-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/kent_state-783x1024.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Published by Kent Popular Press and Kent Left Studios Forum in 1980. Cover photo from the Kent State University Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On\u00a0this day in\u00a01970, the Commons at Kent State University was the place 500+ students gathered to\u00a0rally against the invasion of Cambodia the day before.\u00a0 This started a train of events over the next few days that culminated in the death of 4 students and 9 others wounded on what is known as the\u00a0May 4 massacre.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What is has become a powerful and pervasive symbol\u00a0of\u00a0many things to\u00a0different people, it\u00a0is at very least a\u00a0fascinating event for research.\u00a0 The strength of the Alternative Press Collection at the Dodd Research Center pertains to the Vietnam era and related unrest with alternative tabloids from the\u00a01960s and early 1970s include <strong><em>Georgia Straight, The Berkeley Barb<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>and <strong><em>East Village Other.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great resource to learn more about the anti-war struggle that sparked the events of May 1.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/dodda2z\/subjectarea.cfm?Area=1\">http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/dodda2z\/subjectarea.cfm?Area=1<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0this day in\u00a01970, the Commons at Kent State University was the place 500+ students gathered to\u00a0rally against the invasion of Cambodia the day before.\u00a0 This started a train of events over the next few days that culminated in the death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/05\/01\/a-somber-anniversary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}