Kent State Shootings - May 4, 1970 - Digital Archive - Jayden Smith

"The upheaval in Kent seemed at its outset to be merely another of the scores of student demonstrations that have rocked U.S. campuses. But before it ended , in senseless and brutal murder at point-blank range, Kent State had become a symbol of the fearful hazards latent in dissent, and in the policies that cause it."

“Five months after Kent State, tourists still ome to study the bullet hole in the statue in front of Taylor Hall. But the blood on the parking lot is washed away, the four dead students are buried, and most of the wounded have recovered. Except Dean Kahler. Kahlter speds his hours in a wheel chair in a Cleveland hospital. When he goes back to Kent State again in January, he will be a constant, living reminder of the tragedy.

It is ironic that Dean Kahler, a lanky, freckle-faced son of Middle America, should have become such a symbol, for he is one of the least likely students to be involved in a civil disorder of any sort.”

"John Paul Filo was born Aug. 21, 1948, to John and Mary Jane Filo at Natrona Heights, Pa. He graduated from the Harrison Township public school system. At Har-Brack High School John was editor of the yearbook. The following summer he began as intern photographer at The Valley Daily News and Daily Dispatch in neighboring Tarentum. He enrolled at Kent State in pre-dental. After the second year he transferred to a photo-illustration major."