May 3-4, 2008: all events free and open to public. Sponsor: May 4 Task Force students at KSU: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 3: 7pm, Kiva Auditorium of the KSU Student Center, RON KOVIC will introduce his film, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Kovic will also answer audience questions after the film. A brief poetry reading session will occur to start the program.

May 3: 11pm-midnight: Annual candlelight march across the KSU campus. March culminates at Prentice Hall Parking Lot where our martyrs died in 1970. All-night vigil from midnight to noon. Contact May 4 Task Force students to sign-up for your 30-minute vigil reservation: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 4: 11am-noon: pre-Commemoration music by Tropidelic Band.
May 4: Noon-2pm: 38th annual commemoration event sponsored by the dedicated KSU students of the May 4 Task Force.
Speakers include: Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, expert on Iraq/Iran crisis; Ron Kovic, anti-war activist Vietnam Veteran and author; the family of revolutionary hero & attorney William Kunstler; 1970 KSU wounded students Dean Kahler and Joe Lewis, Jr.; other speakers to be announced. LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF KENT AND JACKSON STATE!

NOTE: the annual anti-Iraq War march from KSU to downtown Kent will follow the commemoration.

May 4: 6pm: The Kent Stage, East Main Street, downtown Kent: music event with several live bands and more.

MAY 4 TASK FORCE
"Truth: The First Casualty of War"

May 2 - 4, 2007
Kent State University

NOTE: Mary Ann Vecchio will be the guest of the Kent May 4 Center in Kent, Ohio, during May 1-5, 2007. She will offer a KSU comment on May 4 at the noon commemoration.

May 2: 3:45-5 p.m. Guided Campus Tours with Thomas Hensley and May 4th State Historical Marker Commemoration, Kiva, KSU Student Center.

INVITATION: Our dear friend, Dr. Tom Grace, our esteemed May 4, 1970 casualty, comrade and historian, will deliver an oration upon the dedication of the Ohio state historical marker at the Kent State University campus on the afternoon of May 2, 2007. You are invited! Join us.

May 2 - 3

The 8th Annual Kent State University administration-sponsored "Symposium on Democracy" ...more info on symposium: http://www.kent.edu/About/History/May4/Democracy/2007events.cfm

May 3

May 3: 5;30pm-6;30pm, "Meet and Greet" wounded survivors of May 4, 1970, Kent State shooting incident. Robby Stamps, Dean Kahler, Tom Grace, Joe Lewis, Jim Russell , Alan Canfora and perhaps others will make a united statement against the Bush/Cheney war in Iraq. Public welcome. May 4 Room in KSU library.

TOM HAYDEN keynote speech, May 3, 2007, at 7:30-9pm in the Kiva auditorium, KSU Student Center. Tom Hayden founded Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, in 1962. See his great anti-war web site: http://www.tomhayden.com/ *** Come early. Packed house, certainly.

“RIGHT HERE, GET SET, POINT, FIRE!” – exact words of the recently-discovered Ohio National Guard verbal command to shoot unarmed Kent State students on May 4, 1970. Seconds before the massacre, which ONG officer shouted this order? General Robert Canterbury? Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fassinger? Major Harry Jones? KENT STATE COVER-UP ENDED May 1, 2007!

Click here for EXCLUSIVE April 30, 2007, Alan Canfora preview announcement of proof of 1970 ORDER TO FIRE by KBOO radio in Portland, Oregon -- audio file (Windows Media)

* MEDIA INQUIRIES: phone KM4C director Alan Canfora: 330-745-1097.

AOL NEWS audio, video and poll results 52% support new 2007 investigation

Yahoo ABC-TV news video Alan Canfora, May 1, 2007

MSNBC video interview Alan Canfora, May 1, 2007

two audio files of order to fire command revealed by Alan Canfora

NPR: National Public Radio audio, Alan Canfora announcement, two versions audio

Cleveland Plain Dealer writer Connie Schultz article re: Alan Canfora news, May 1, 2007

On April 12, 2007, the highest ranking uniformed officer of the 1970 Ohio National Guard troops at Kent State University met with members of the May 4 Task Force student organization on the campus of Kent State University. In 1970, although General Robert Canterbury was the highest ranking officer on Blanket Hill at the moment of the historic student massacre, Lieutenant Colonel Fassinger was the top uniformed officer because General Canterbury was wearing a suit and tie along with a gas mask perched upon his head.

Charles Fassinger, now age 76, was filmed during his two-hour question/answer session which was attended by Kent May 4 Center director Alan Canfora, one of the nine students wounded by gunfire at KSU on May 4, 1970. Fassinger also was filmed twice earlier that week including his visit to the May 4 educational class at KSU taught by 1970 tragedy eyewitnesses Dr. Laura Davis and Dr. Carole Barbato.

Is it a coincidence Fassinger suddenly re-emerges at Kent weeks prior to the imminent announcement of new proof of the May 4, 1970, National Guard verbal command to shoot unarmed Kent State students?

Here's a recent article published by the DAILY KENT STATER student newspaper

"National Guardsman meets with May 4 Task Force for first time"

by Kiera Manion-Fischer

Issue date: 4/16/07 Section: News

Was the shooting justified? - That was the question on the May 4 Task Force members' minds when they met with retired Lt. Gen. Charles Fassinger, one of the commanding officers of the Ohio National Guard in May 1970.

On May 4, 2006 following the Commemoration, a large group of students marched from Kent State University into downtown Kent. The following is a video taken by Alan Canfora and Brock Brown, edited by Karen Kilroy.

Click here to watch the video


Click here for photos of 2006 protest

Beware of California tourist-guide author William A. Gordon.

Beware of his misleading books about Kent State 1970: FOUR DEAD IN OHIO and also THE FOURTH OF MAY. Both are the same bogus 1981 book sold with two titles in 1990 and 1995.

Beware of his repeated attacks against Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center (KM4C), May 4 Task Force (M4TF) students, KSU professors and many others.

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William A. Gordon's Kent State vendetta: 1984-2007

During 37 years of our ongoing May 4 Movement for truth and justice at Kent State in Kent, Ohio, one peculiar individual has maintained a perpetual vendetta against Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center, May 4 Task Force, Kent State University, KSU Professor Jerry M. Lewis, the late KSU Professor Glenn Frank and others too numerous to mention here.

William A. Gordon, aka Bill Gordon, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and attended Akron University as a freshman when the students were killed at Kent State in 1970. Bill Gordon transferred to KSU, curried favor with KSU student government leaders and, for a brief time, played a small role in the early KSU movement seeking truth and justice until he graduated KSU in 1973.

Later, saying he was writing a book, Bill Gordon won the trust of our 1970 victims’ families until he began to associate with attorneys for the Ohio National Guard during our 1975 civil lawsuit trial in Cleveland’s Federal Court House. I was chosen by the plaintiffs to stop Gordon’s ongoing attempts to attend our families’ meetings with our attorneys in Cleveland.

Later, in 1975-76, the first year of our May 4 Task Force student organization at KSU, Bill Gordon was the apartment room-mate of M4TF leader Steve Timinsky until Timinsky bitterly denounced Gordon and exposed Gordon’s repeated subterfuge.

The National History Day program "helps students learn about historical issues, ideas, people, and events." The Kent May 4 Center recently received a large number of emails from students in response to National History Day. A sample of these emails follows:

More info on National History Day

February 20, 2007:

Hello my name is Jodie and right now I’m in 11 grade at Whitney High School in CA.

I’m doing a project on the Kent State Shooting and i would really like it if you could help me out a little bit. I would like to see your side of the whole thing because we have to choose sides and i haven’t completely made my decision on which side i want to write about. I would really like to talk to you. My project is due in March sometime. my teacher hasn’t given a set deadline yet. I will be looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you, Jodie
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February 18, 2007:

Dear Mr. Canfora,

My name is Dan and I am in the 8th grade. I am doing a project on the Kent State Shootings and I have a few questions for you that i was hoping you could answer.

1. Why were you at the protest?

You may have noticed our recent new versions of both May4.org and AlanCanfora.com.

Our plans are to expand the May4.org site over the coming months, adding many more photos, videos and documents.

Check out the earlier web site versions for other photos and info:

Click here for Alan's earlier site

Click here for the earlier May4.org site

Thanks for your interest in our misunderstood Kent State tragedy of May 4, 1970.

Respectfully,

Alan Canfora, Director
Kent May 4 Center
Box 3313
Kent, OH 44240

Karen Kilroy,
webmaster
May4.org
& AlanCanfora.com