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Guests of �鶹ӰԺ’s May 4 Visitors Center can learn more about Jeffrey Miller, one of the four students shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, by visiting “Our Brother Jeff,” a new exhibition at the visitors center that honors Miller’s life. The exhibition will be on display from Oct. 19, 2019, to Feb. 29, 2020. Russ Miller, Jeff’s brother, helped create the exhibition by loaning some of Jeff’s personal items to the May 4 Visitors Center. 

Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at �鶹ӰԺ State as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series.

�鶹ӰԺ is offering a community course that deals with the historical, cultural, social and political contexts of events before, during and after the May 4, 1970, shootings. The free course, Making Meaning of May 4: The �鶹ӰԺ State Shootings in American History, will be held Oct. 16, 23 and 30 at the university’s May 4 Visitors Center.

In the spring of 1970, two-time �鶹ӰԺ alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless was a junior in �鶹ӰԺ State’s inaugural nursing program. While in class on Monday, May 4, a professor rushed into her classroom and warned students who could leave campus to do so. Fifty years later, Gless now reflects on the events surrounding that tragedy and how they have impacted her life and nursing career.

On the morning of May 4, 1970, �鶹ӰԺ student Howard Ruffner was hanging out in the office of the Daily �鶹ӰԺ Stater in Taylor Hall when the phone rang.

The Midwest editor from Life magazine, based in Chicago, was calling to find out if there were any student photographers who had been taking photos over the weekend. �鶹ӰԺ State had been the scene of student protests for several days, and more demonstrations were expected that day.  

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on �鶹ӰԺ students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine, students and faculty from �鶹ӰԺ State’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising are bringing attention to current social issues in the new exhibition called “Wearing Justice: Perspectives From KSU Fashion School Faculty and Students” that is on display now at the �鶹ӰԺ Museum.

Plenty has been written about May 4, 1970. Ken Burhanna, dean of �鶹ӰԺ Libraries, offers his preferred reading list.

A team of devoted �鶹ӰԺ State faculty led the drive to achieve national recognition of the significance of May 4, 1970.
 

�鶹ӰԺ Libraries’ May 4, 1970 Collection has been selected by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to benefit from a $30,561 award through the Recordings at Risk grant program, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

From April 22 to Aug. 1, �鶹ӰԺ’s May 4 Visitors Center will honor Bill Schroeder’s life with an exhibition titled “Bill: An All-American Boy.” Mr. Schroeder’s sister, Nancy Tuttle, and nephew, David Tuttle, helped create the exhibition by loaning some of his personal items to the May 4 Visitors Center.