Carpenter, Harold
Description
In 1970, Harold Carpenter was a high school teacher at Kent State's laboratory school, called the University School, on the Kent campus. He taught history and social studies. In this vivid and detailed oral history, he discusses his life as a teacher, working with Kent State students observing his classes, the mood on campus in the late Sixties, the "town vs. gown" division in the city of Kent, the mood and attitudes of his neighbors, and events that took place in his neighborhood in Kent. He also relates his eyewitness account of the May 4, 1970, shootings and discusses several aspects of the aftermath.
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Audio Digital File
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Ohio Digital NetworkKeywords
- Ambulances
- Armored Vehicles, Military
- College Environment
- College Teachers
- Common Fallacies
- Community And College
- Community Members
- Demonstrations
- Draft
- Drumm, Don, 1935 . Solar Totem #1
- Eyewitness Accounts
- Fassinger, Charles
- Fires
- Frank, Glenn W
- Garand Rifle
- Helicopters
- High School Teachers
- Hysteria (Social Psychology)
- Interviews
- Jeep Automobile
- Kent
- Kent (Ohio)
- Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
- Kent State University. Johnson Hall
- Kent State University. Rotc Building
- Kent State University. University School
- Kent State University. Victory Bell
- Military Occupation
- Norman, Terry
- Ohio
- Ohio State Highway Patrol
- Ohio. Army National Guard
- Polarization (Social Sciences)
- Political Aspects
- Race Relations
- Rhodes, James A. (James Allen), 1909 2001
- Searches And Seizures
- Searchlights
- Teacher Educators
- United States
- United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Vigilantes
- Violence
- Walls Elementary School (Kent, Ohio)
