Episode 6: Poet and Playwright David Hassler and the Kent State Shootings
The episode includes an interview with poet and playwright David Hassler who discusses his play “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970” which is based on the university’s oral history archive. It also features Mindy Farmer, who is Director of the May 4 Visitor’s Center on the Kent State campus.
In this episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast revisits Kent State University 50 years on from the May 4th 1970 shootings by members of the National Guard of four unarmed students on the campus. The episode includes an interview with poet and playwright David Hassler who discusses his play “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970” which is based on the university’s oral history archive. It also features Mindy Farmer, who is Director of the May 4 Visitor’s Center on the Kent State campus.
A film of the student production of Hassler’s play is available on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gOyP9TAmo
A one hour radio special of the play is available on PRX and on the web at: https://may4voices.org/
A one hour radio special of the play is available on PRX and on the web at: https://may4voices.org/
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