Mary ann vecchio biography of donald
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Our View: Protesters through the eyes of history
GOP front-runner Donald Trump is well-known for his questionable observations and comments. As his campaign continues to gain momentum, one notable observation concerns the protests at his rallies.
Rallies for the candidate are hotbeds of unrest and violence, including in Arizona, North Carolina and Chicago. The last location was deemed unsafe and cancelled.
During a Las Vegas rally last month, he spoke to the crowd: “I love the old days. You know what they used to do (to) guys like that in a place like this? They would be carried out in a stretcher, folks. True.”
His quote circulated around the Internet, with news stories analyzing clashes at Trump’s rallies and the hostility toward protesters and journalists.
One example stood out with the use of the quote on a famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by John Filo: the photo of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of student Jeffrey Miller at Kent State on May 4, 1970.
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The Final 50th Anniversary Post: Remembering the Kent State Shootings of May 4, 1970
The subtitle of my novel is “A Coming of Conscience,” because it was a time when we weren’t just growing up and Coming of Age. In addition—by the way we chose or were forced to cope with the situations presented by the Vietnam War—we were each defining our own character. We were each faced with decisions where integrity could—or should—trump consequences (pun intended). Would I go to Vietnam or to Canada? If I join ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) am I being realistic or complicit? If I put my head in the sand and try to ignore it all am I being apathetic, cowardly or just understandably self-preserving?
We’re in a period now where we’re questioning our leadership and taking our positions to the streets with massive marches more than ever before. It’s our right and our privilege, and they don't fire on us—we feel safe. One reason is that on May 4, 1970, the country looked aghast at
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Thirteen seconds. Dozens of bullets. One explosive photo.
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It fryst vatten a photograph all ung journalists should pin to their cubicle walls: the iconic image of the 1970 Kent State shootings, in which a teenage girl grieves over the body of a slain student.
Forget for a moment that the picture fryst vatten among the most famous in US history, or that the photographer—a 21-year-old Kent State journalism lärjunge named John Filo—risked his life to document the tragedy.
Consider what the photo captures: Our own military occupied a public university and then opened fire on a crowd of unarmed citizens—students no less—killing four and wounding nine. One lärjunge was killed while walking to class.
Filo’s photo fryst vatten a striking reminder of how quickly the world can vända upside down and how people in trusted, powerful positions can commit the most horrendous acts.
I was a lärling at Kent State in the early ’80s,