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Stone, Ifill to Join Kent Dedication May 4
KENT, Ohio -- Film director and producer Oliver Stone and PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill will be at Kent State University May 4 to mark its 43rd annual commemoration of the 1970 slayings of four students by the Ohio NationalGuard. They will help dedicate the May 4 Visitors Center with other commemorative events to be held beginning May 3.
The new center tells the events of May 4 and the political and cultural changes of the 1960s.
Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’ “Washington Week” and co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” will host a panel discussion, “Historical Significance of May 4 and the Visitors Center” on from 4 to 6 p.m. May 4 in University Auditorium at Cartwright Hall.
Afterward, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., Stone will offer his thoughts on “History and Memory in Film,” drawing on his films that depict ’60s-era events. Stone, an Oscar-winning director, producer and screen writer of movies and documentaries, served in the Army infantry in Vietnam in 1967 and ‘68, and received a Bronze Star for valor.
Both events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. A reception at 9 p.m. will follow Stone’s presentation in the third-floor lobby of Cartwright Hall.
The annual candlelight march begins at 10:30 p.m. May 3 at the Kent State commons. The march loops the campus and pays tribute to those wounded and killed May 4, 1970. A vigil follows the march and lasts until until 12:24 p.m. May 4, with people standing at the spots where the four students -- Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder -- fell.
The May 4 Visitors Center is in room 101 of Taylor Hall on Midway Drive and is open from noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday and Saturday. Admission is free.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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