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After the shooting Do you feel like the national sentiment afterwards matched your experience and how it all happened? No, Kent to me became an accidental icon. As I just described, there was a series of bad decisions that lead to a bad outcome on a campus that was never known for protest, was primarily apathetic. But you had four dead students and those four dead students became the symbol of anti-war. From that moment on, even today, you mention Kent State and people know it and they place it as an anti-war. How do you feel this affected your perspective on the war and your life afterwards? Well, it’s always lived with me and I think it has lived with all of us. There is a little bond with those of us who were there at the time. They closed the university, that afternoon by about 4 or 5 o’clock it was deserted. They just told everybody to go home, which was interesting because it was the suitcase college that I said it was. So everybody could call their parents in Cleveland or Youngstown and say “help I need a ride home.” I rode home with somebody who lived in Cleveland and then my parents actually lived in Ann Arbor at the time so I had to hitch a ride to Cleveland, and then hitch a ride to Toledo and my parents came to Toledo to pick me up. I mean this was totally unexpected. Then you start digesting what went on and you start the pure tragedy of it and you read some of the stuff that starts to get published about it and you go “wait a minute, that didn’t happen.” To me, it made me a little bit better at critical thinking about how things are perceived, because you’re standing right there.
Object Description
Profile of | Bryan Shaul |
Title | Kent State Massacre: The Day the War Came Home |
Profile bio | Bryan Shaul was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and grew up in a small farming community southwest of Mansfield, Ohio. He attended Northwestern University as a journalism major, but lost focus and dropped out in his second year. When he returned home, he supported himself by booking local rock bands with one of his high school friends. With the Vietnam War ramping up it was not a good time to be male, single and self-employed. Bryan decided to return to college joining many kindred spirits seeking to get a II-S draft deferment. With some experience running his own business, Bryan decided to major in accounting. Bryan chose Kent State University because, at that time, Kent had a respectable accounting program. This time Bryan would have to pay the bills for his education. He was able to convince the administration at Kent State administration that he could attend undergraduate school while functioning as a grad counselor in one of the dorms. Grad counselors received free room and board and a private suite. Bryan received his undergraduate degree a year after the shootings. Recently, Bryan retired and now divides his time between a cabin on the lake in Cascade, Idaho and a condo on Main Street in Huntington Beach |
Profiler bio | Adan Macias is a senior from Los Angeles, CA majoring in architecture. Riley Mathies is a junior from Newport Beach, CA majoring in communication, minoring in entrepreneurship. Matthew Parvizyar is a senior from Los Angeles, CA majoring in real estate (PPD). Murphy Sharma is a sophomore from Fort worth, TX majoring in chemistry (pre-med). |
Subject |
antiwar free speech movement SDS Vietnam Vietnam war Kent State National Guard Protest campus shooting |
Profiled by | Macias, Adan; Mathies, Riley; Parvizyar, Matthew; Sharma, Murphy |
Profile date | 2014-03-14 |
Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Northampton; Mansfield; Cascade; Huntington Beach |
Geographic subject (county) | Hampshire; Richland; Valley; Orange |
Geographic subject (state) | Massachusetts; Ohio; Idaho; California |
Geographic subject (country) | USA; Cambodia |
Coverage date | 1970 |
Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/bryan-shaul/ |
Type |
images video |
Format | 1 image; 5 video files (00:20:33); 5 transcripts |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
Filename | shaulbryan |
Description
Profile of | Bryan Shaul |
Title | After the Shooting |
Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
Filename | shaulbryan-vid5_tr5.pdf |
Full text | After the shooting Do you feel like the national sentiment afterwards matched your experience and how it all happened? No, Kent to me became an accidental icon. As I just described, there was a series of bad decisions that lead to a bad outcome on a campus that was never known for protest, was primarily apathetic. But you had four dead students and those four dead students became the symbol of anti-war. From that moment on, even today, you mention Kent State and people know it and they place it as an anti-war. How do you feel this affected your perspective on the war and your life afterwards? Well, it’s always lived with me and I think it has lived with all of us. There is a little bond with those of us who were there at the time. They closed the university, that afternoon by about 4 or 5 o’clock it was deserted. They just told everybody to go home, which was interesting because it was the suitcase college that I said it was. So everybody could call their parents in Cleveland or Youngstown and say “help I need a ride home.” I rode home with somebody who lived in Cleveland and then my parents actually lived in Ann Arbor at the time so I had to hitch a ride to Cleveland, and then hitch a ride to Toledo and my parents came to Toledo to pick me up. I mean this was totally unexpected. Then you start digesting what went on and you start the pure tragedy of it and you read some of the stuff that starts to get published about it and you go “wait a minute, that didn’t happen.” To me, it made me a little bit better at critical thinking about how things are perceived, because you’re standing right there. |
Archival file | Volume4/shaulbryan-vid5_tr5.pdf |