Kent State shootings to be focus of new movie

[Diamond_Dog]

Students form a human chain to hold back the crowd and clear the way for rescue workers helping one of the shooting victims May 4, 1970, at Kent State University.

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The May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University will be the subject of a new movie.

Scheduled to begin filming in November, “Kent State” will tell the story of how “a family’s buried past coincides with the brutal truth of one of the most significant events in American history.”

Georgia will double as Ohio in the historical drama about National Guardsmen opening fire on a crowd of Vietnam War protesters, killing four students and wounding nine.

Actors Dermot Mulroney and Clancy Brown have been cast in the $10 million project, which will be directed by Karen Slade based on a screenplay that she wrote. Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights in North America. A 2023 release is planned.

Much more:

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/10/12/kent-state-movie-to-tell-story-of-national-guard-shootings-in-1970/69538293007/

******* As a KSU grad, I just hope it’s done accurately. I share Ms. Canfora’s concerns.

[Pas-de-Calais]

1. CSNY

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer, I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio…

[FakeNoose]

2. Pivotal event for many baby boomers

I know that today's kids would probably say, "Only four?"

But the 4 who died at Kent State did more to wake up my generation to the evil of political warfare than anything I can remember. It was the point where the kids screaming "Hell no, we won't go!" turned into "OK you won't go, then we'll shoot you down instead."

I know that's an extreme over-simplification, but it was how the nation's draft-age young people viewed the Kent State killings. We were shocked and traumatized, even those of us who couldn't be drafted. After Kent State, we all became war protesters and even parents started listening.

I hope they do a good job with this movie, I hope the story is told fairly.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Yep

And that’s why I can’t understand how many of our Boomer generation did a complete turnaround and fell down the right wing rabbit hole. Maybe there weren’t as many anti war lefties as I thought there were. Or they have short memories.

[Paladin]

4. I'll go with the "short memories" option.

Based on the way many of my college friends turned out. Unfortunately.

[Celerity]

7. The majority were not anti-war, they were anti-draft, as soon as the draft ended the protests shrunk

dramatically, to the point of almost nothing, despite the war raging on.

The Boomers did not do a complete turnaround, the majority were of mindsets that earned them the name the 'Me Generation'.

[Ocelot II]

5. I remember that like it was last week - it was so shocking.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. All my friends were shocked. Everyone in my generation was shocked.

I remember some parents of friends or other older people saying, “Well, they threw rocks at armed Guardsmen! What did they expect?”