Bob Giles, a young newspaper editor at the Akron Beacon Journal on the day of the Kent State shootings - May 4, 1970. Giles tells the story of how he and his staff painstakingly pursued the truth of the shootings – a tragedy that has haunted the nation for 50 years and significantly changed the debate about the Vietnam War.
Akron Beacon Journal managing editor Robert Giles describes the turmoil and drama of the newsroom on that fateful day. On the campus at Kent State University Giles takes you from the National Guard rifles to the bloody aftermath of four students killed and nine wounded to the stress of reporters hurrying to sort fact from fiction for a horrified world wanting to know “what” and “why.”

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