Kent State Killings, Narrated by Rosanne Cash

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Jul 10, 2026 #WeAreAmerica250

Rosanne Cash is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and the author of four books, including the best-selling memoir Composed. Across 15 albums, her work has earned four Grammys and 12 additional nominations. She is one of the few women inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the only woman to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal in Composition, and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Cash recounts the 1970 Kent State killings, when National Guardsmen opened fire, leaving four students dead and forcing a national reckoning over protest and police violence.

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1. This is deplorable and an affront to the rights of Freedom of Speach, Assembly and Protest.

We are not alone with this problem. On January 30, 1972 the Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, occurred on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen more deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)

Paul McCartney's Give Ireland Back to the Irish was banned.
U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday reached #1 in Republic of Ireland.
Irish poet Thomas Kinsella published Butcher's Dozen later that year.


Government need to remember - "It's not who they are underneath... but what they *do*... that defines them."
[Apologies to Batman.]