That night, the family watched Richard Nixon announce that U.S. They see National Guardsmen outside a trucking company where Teamsters are striking.īackderf recalls feeling “shaken and disturbed” at seeing men with guns and bayonets threatening the fathers of his classmates. The book starts in Richfield, Backderf’s hometown, on April 30, 1970, as his mother is driving the then 10-year-old Backderf to a doctor’s appointment. Derf Backderf’s nonfiction graphic novel “Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio” was supposed to have been released in May, but of course nothing this year is as it should be.īackderf learned in March that publication would be delayed until September, missing the 50th anniversary commemoration of the campus shootings that rocked the world.
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