This is a bibliography on the Kent State shootings. External links to reports, news articles and other sources of information may also be found below.

Books Agte, Barbara Becker, (2012), Kent Letters: Students' Responses to the May 1970 Massacre. Deming, New Mexico: Bluewaters Press Caputo, Philip. (2005). 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings with DVD. New York: Chamberlain Bros. . Davies, Peter and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. (1973). The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. . Eszterhas, Joe, and Roberts, Michael D. (1970). Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State. New York: Dodd, Mead. . Gordon, William A. (1990). The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. . Updated and reprinted in 1995 as Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? Laguna Hills, California: North Ridge Books. . Giles, Robert (2020). When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press. Grace, Thomas M. (2016). Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. . Hensley, Thomas R. and Lewis, Jerry M. (2010), Kent State and May 4th A Social Science Perspective 3rd Edition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press. Kelner, Joseph and Munves, James, The Kent State Coverup, New York: Harper & Row. . Means, Howard. (2016). 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence. Boston: Da Capo Press. . Michener, James. (1971). Kent State: What Happened and Why. New York: Random House and Reader's Digest Books. . Excerpt Payne, J. Gregory. (1981). Mayday: Kent State. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co. . Ruffner, Howard. (2019). Moments of Truth - A Photographer's Experience at Kent State 1970. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. Simpson, Craig S., and Wilson, Gregory S.. (2016). Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. . Stone, I. F. (1970). The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished, in series, New York Review Book[s]. New York: distributed by Vintage Books. N.B.: The second printing also includes copyrighted material dated 1971. . VanDeMark, Brian. (2024). Kent State: An American Tragedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. . Weissman, Norman. (2008). Snapshots USA. Mystic, Connecticut: Hammonasset House Books. .

Articles

Stone, I. F. "Fabricated Evidence in the Kent State Killings", The New York Review of Books, Volume 15, Number December 10, 3 1970. WKSU News: Newly-Enhanced Audio Tape May Reveal Order to Fire on Kent State Students, Former Student Who Was Shot Calling for Investigation, Tuesday, May 1, 2007with audio links Remembering Kent State shooting victims By Jim Mackinnon, Akron Beacon Journal writer, May 5, 2008Scott Ritter speaks at 2008 commemoration Newspaper article archives: Kent State tragedy: Reflecting on May 4, 1970 (the Akron Beacon Journal) Kent State Shootings 40th Anniversary (The Plain Dealer of Cleveland)

Films

1970: Confrontation at Kent State (director Richard Myers) – documentary filmed by a Kent State University filmmaker in Kent, Ohio, directly following the shootings. 1981: Kent State (director James Goldstone)television docudrama.NBC's Emmy award winning docudrama: Kent State May 4 Archive.org. Retrieved January 20, 2014. 2000: Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (director Chris Triffo, executive producer Mark Mori), the Emmy-Award-winning documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, and relatives of students killed at Kent State. 2007: ("4 dead in Ohio: an American trauma") (directors Klaus Bredenbrock and Pagonis Pagonakis) – documentary featuring interviews with injured students, eyewitnesses and a German journalist who was a U.S. correspondent. 2008: How It Was: Kent State ShootingsNational Geographic Channel documentary series episode.National Geographic Channel: "How It Was: Death at Kent State," 2008. Kent State University - Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved January 20, 2014. 2010: Fire In the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America (director Daniel Lee Miller)documentary featuring the build-up to, the events of, and the aftermath of the shootings, told by many of those who were present and in some cases wounded.

Reports President's Commission on Campus Unrest ("Scranton Commission")

Websites Kent State University webpages Kent State University, Department of Special Collections & Archives: May 4 Collection Kent State University May 4, 1970 Resource Page (archived) Kent State University May 4, 1970, Online Newsroom (archived) Kent State University 40 May 4 Commemoration Events Listing – 2010 anniversary events at KSU (archived) Mapping May 4 – map of stories from the oral history collection May 4 Task Force home page By Justin Brummer (UCL) May4Archive.org – maintained by author J. Gregory Payne FBI file on the Kent State shootings Terry Norman FBI Files online Kent State Terry Norman Eyewitness: Howard Ruffner Repository of Oral Histories of the Kent State Shootings Kent State shooting scrapbook Links, photos, music and eyewitness reports about the shootings at Kent State. personal website of one of the survivors; historical information, photographs, and commentary. A 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity about the Kent State Shootings. Kent State RememberedA collection of articles regarding the Kent State Protest. Mike and Kendra's Kent State, May 4, 1970 web siteDetailing the commemoration process and related controversies and providing sources for research. Kent State 1970: Information Repository by WKSU National Register nomination form Kent State Truth Tribunal website Interview with Alan Canfora and Dr. Roseann Chic Canfora, survivors of the Kent State shootings – Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s

Audio "Sound Montage On Kent State", Morning Edition, NPR, 5/4/2000 (sound montage from NPR)

Video Dean Kahler on KSU's May 4 Visitors' Centershort interview with Dean Kahler. On 40th Anniversary of Kent State Shootings, Truth Tribunal Seeks Answersvideo report by Democracy Now! Death at Kent State, Nat Geo Online

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