The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished

by I.F. Stone

Kent State shooting.

Genres: Crime

Paperback

First published June 1, 1971

About the author

Isidor Feinstein Stone (better known as I.F. Stone or Izzy Stone) was an American investigative journalist.

He is best remembered for his self-published newsletter, I.F. Stone's Weekly, which was ranked 16th in a poll of his fellow journalists of "The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century."

Reviews

[Michael Fredette · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Killings at Kent State is a chapbook, produced by the New York Review, and published as a paperback original by Vintage containing a polemical, muckraking essay by the left wing journalist I.F. Stone, coupled with prefatory remarks by Senator Young of Ohio, and an appendix containing an objective newspaper account, grand jury findings, and other material. The text deals with the shooting of 13 students (and killing of four) on the campus of Kent State University, by members of the Ohio National Guard, called in to quell rioting, following protests over the encroachment of U.S. forces into Cambodia, during the Vietnam War.