Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. The Prentice Hall Parking Lot. The Ohio National Guard fires at an unarmed crowd at Kent State University. Four students are killed. Nine are wounded.
Many lives are scarred.
His book was one of the first investigative novels about the incident. It is now Sept. 8, 1999. Same university, same parking lot. After nearly 30 years, markers are dedicated in the spaces where Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder fell. Four lives are remembered.