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.