Beyond #10

Don Mclean released "American Pie'' Which was about when a plane crashed carying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson("the Big Bopper") killing three huge names in music at the time. I took this verse from the song and want to explain it" Did you write the book of love, and do you have faith in God above, If the bible tells you so? Do you believe in rock and roll, can music save your mortal soul, and can you teach me how to dance real slow? In this verse the is a reference to the song "Book of Love" by the Monotones. "The Bible Tells me so" is a song by don Cornell. Do you believe in rock and roll is asking the listeners a question like to you believe in this kind of music like its something unbelieveable or unimaginable. Also dancing real slow is real integral part of sixties rock music. I started singing, "bye-bye, Miss American Pie." Drove my chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. Those good old boys were drinking wisky and rye, and singing, "this will be the day that i die, this oll be the day that i die."
In this verse miss American Pie is refers to rock and roll music. Buddy had a hit that said "this ol be the day that i die'' this was almost a precursor to what was going to come of him.

Beyond #9

This picture was taken at 12:24 May 4, 1970. In this picture Mary Ann Vecchioa fourteen year old runnaway standing over her dead friend jeffery Miller(student at Kent State) on the compus of Kent State in Kent, Ohio. Prior to this day the campus of Kent State had errupted in anger due to President Nixon widening of the war into cambodia. Riots and protests consumed the campus from May first till the fourth. Kents' Mayor issued a state of emergancy on the second of May. The National Guard was called into Kent to take control of these riots. On May fourth at 12:24 the national guard was chased up a hill by rioters, at the top the guardsmen turned on the crowd and and shot 67 bullets into the crowd in about thirteen seconds killing 4 one of them being Jeffery Miller and wounding 9. The shot that killed this boy went right threw his mouth and killed him instantly.