gregory wilson is associate professor in the department of history at the university of akron. his research and teaching interests include 20th century united states political economy, public and environmental history, ohio history and the scholarship of teaching and learning. he is the author of "communities left behind: the area redevelopment administration 1945 to 1965" as well as the co-author on an upcoming state history of ohio. his oral history project done with ua students, "the times they were a-changing, akron remembers 1968, won the ohio academy of history, public history award in 2010. their paper is entitled "above the shots, the kent state shootings and the politics of truth, trauma and reconciliation." craig? >> okay. thank you, barbara. the shootings of may 4, 1970, lasting all of 13 seconds have reverberated for approximately 40 years. in purely factual terms, they were the culmination of a clash at kent state university between student protesters and members of the ohio national guard. in the lingering debate over historical memory the shots have been regarded

and she was in akron in 1851 when this woman's rights convention took place. she was already quite well known in reform circles as a powerful speaker. sojourner truth was very tall. she was at least 6 feet tall, she had a very imposing presence. and this convention in akron included some speakers who were against woman's suffrage. and said that women were too weak and delicate for public life and for exercising the suffrage. and that bothered sojourner truth. she asked for permission to speak and she was given permission and she stood up and made this spontaneous speech talking about her life as a woman. and what that had been like. and the famous refrain sort of rhetorical question she asked is, aren't i a woman? or maybe you know, ain't i a woman. there are several slightly different versions of what she said because this was not a prepared speech, this was a spontaneous speech. and she stood up and she said people say you know, that women are too weak to do this, that and the other. when i was a slave i worked hard all day. i worked as hard as any man ever

job in a goodyear factory, and tweet, you know, i'm a white male and i'm a factory worker here in akron and i just don't know for whom to vote. and if i just did that i'd have friends until election day. then they would all turn their backs on me and that would be the end of it. so i'd like to start off by asking what we were just discussing in the green room, actually, which is here we saw this big inflection point 60 years ago. the world changed with television. your world. the world in which you live and have to predict the unpredictable and deal with the unfair so many times. is the world going to change with the realization we now have facebook, we now have twitter, we now have social media? and if so how is the world going to change? what is different and what's going to be different? so let's -- chris, let me ask you to start, and then we'll just go. >> first of all, thanks for having us. especially with this very august panel. and john, thank you for the introduction. i will say that, you know, sarah and i worked together on the 2000 gore campaign, and i think we could have defi

police say the group of vandals broke away from akron occupy rally. witnesses said the vandal were dressed in black and described them as anarchist. >> it's very frustrating. only one person was arrested in connection with the strand limb. some criticized police for not stepping in and stopping the violence. the mission statement said it took some time to get officers in place to deal with the situation. p. >> 17-year-old accused of stealing a car will be charged as an adult. he's facing two charges of attempted murder in connection with a drive by shooting. wade repelled into a san francisco showroom and stole the clamber gone knee. it was discovered in a storage unit over the weekend. continuing coverage now wants to spend san francisco sheriff the city made public the list of witnesses for that hearing. he's fighting to get his job back after pleading guilty of false imprisonment. december 31st incident with his life. mayor who suspended the sheriff is one of the 17 names on that list. also called is kristina, former girlfriend who says he has a te

mueller, the day after the shootings, he didn't belong to ksu but was a university of akron alum. the day after the shootings we took a bus to columbus and tried to make a citizen's arrest of governor rhodes. there were also accounts from students who were actually in the line of fire such as this one here. it's kind of hard to see in the back there. but catherine delattre, one of the students i interviewed, she's being pushed out of the line of fire by her boyfriend in the background there. that's a better view of her. glen frank was able to calm the students down, defuse the situation and probably save a lot of lives that day. the two national guardsmen offered very diverse interpretations of these events. one, j. reynold schneider, who was a captain who led a company on may 4 that day, his company was not involved in the actual shootings. but he bristled at the suggestion that the guard was unprepared for riot training for this kind of event. another guardsman, art crumel also said they had very little riot training in the kind that the campus state presented. he was haunted by

strategist and senior communications strategist at new media strategies and dennis traynor jr host of akron t.v. and director of american autumn a documentary on the occupy movement that's going to launch in just a few weeks gentlemen i want to thank you both for joining me tonight and so dennis i want to start with you because i just want your take on what you thought about yesterday about the protests the actions that we saw across the country the turnout failure or success somewhere in between. the tar york city where i was yesterday i think was a success we had about thirty thousand people converging in union square some estimates as high as forty thousand marching down broadway past low street again barkley peaceful as the senate but most of the mainstream media wants to talk about the violence and the narrative is really wrong it's really been botched here. and equating africa's and violence is a false paradigm it's like saying that you know all republicans believe in creationism because the majority of people who believe in creationism or republicans or even you know that the democra

citizens wrongly targeted by the voter purge in florida like marine russo who was born in akron, ohio. she got this letter in the mail telling her, quote, the broward county supervisor of elections office has received information from the state of florida that you're not a united states citize if you believe this information is false, you may request a hearing with the supervisor of elections for the purpose of providing proof that you are a united states citizen. the state of florida is saying to this woman, miss russo, papers please. if she doesn't prove she's a citizen, the state will take away her right to vote. why? who knows. this also this gentleman. he's a 91-year-old world war ii veteran. he was born in brooklyn. he's lived in florida for 14 years. he's never had trouble voting. this year the state of florida is demanding he prove his citizenship. >> i voted for the last 15 years. i voted in brooklyn when i lived in brooklyn. i really don't understand it. to me social security like an insult. >> as it happens, there's pattern emerging among the florida voters. the state is tr

. >>> the police released a name of protesters who were arrested in the akronationings, the first clash started at about noon, by the end of the day, 39 people were arrested for what police say were isolated incidents of vandalism. 22 were from the bay area, including two from oakland, three were from other parts of california. police cited and released 16 people, but 12 others are jailed. >>> and our coverage continues on ktvu.com. you can watch raw video of the clashes between police and protesters. and you can find out more about the causes that brought people out into the streets in the first place. >>> and a new round of digging under way at a remote farm house in san joaquin county as they resume the search for victims of the so-called speed freak killers. they spotted the crews outside linden. ktvu ken pritchett has more on the results of today's dig. >> reporter: well, gasia mikaelian, i can tell you we were being kept well back from the dig site, which is about a half mile to a mile north on this country road. i can tell you that the search for human remains found nothing. but

, get a job in a good year factory and tweet, i am a white male and i am a factory worker in akron and i just do not know for whom to vote. if i just did that, i would have friends until election day. then they would all turn their backs on me and that would be the end of it. i would like to start off by asking what we were just discussing in the greenroom. here we saw this big inflexion plight and the world changed with television. your world. in which you live and have to predict the unpredictable and deal with the unfair so many times. is the world going to change with the realization we now have facebook and twitter, we now have social media and if so, how is the world going to change? what is different and what is going to be different? let me ask you to start. >> thanks for having us and thank you for the introduction. sarah and i worked together and we could have benefited from univac in florida. we were talking about this earlier. i am a little bit of the country and here. i do think that we're going to hit an inflection point. i am not sure if we are quite there yet. technolog

citizen, born in akron, ohio. the state of florida wants her purged off the voting list. bill anturnacorolla, born in brooke lynn, new york, the state of florida wants him purged off the voter list. author guy, seen here posing with his american passport, as well as his local election supervisor, who is a republican, but who does not want to purge this gentleman off the rolls, even though the state of florida is telling him to. even as local election supervisors from both parties have criticized whatever was the flawed process of putting voters' names on the state purge list this year, florida state officials under republican governor rick scott are going ahead. they're vowing to ramp up the purge now. they are vowing to continue, less than six months before the presidential election, to take people's names off the voting rolls. a state elections official now telling "the miami herald," "i don't have a timetable on when the next list of names will be send to supervisors, but there will be more names." "there will be more names." the state of florida will be targeting more

a man in akron, ohio, say he may have just broken the world of guinness record record for fist bumpings arm up and down without stopping for 16 straight hours. fine work, sir. he says he used super glue to keep his fist intact. apparently the glue wore off by hour 15. folks at guinness have to review the possible record. the guy says he got used to lifting his hands above his head from his old job hanging light fixture of thes. bp closed this wisconsin gas station after hundreds of drivers tried taking advantage of a sign mistakenningly advertising gas at 37 cents a gallon. number four, sales at u.s. retail stores barely bundle in april which could indicate a weaker spending ahead number three the pentagon limiting the use of f-23 pilot jets after pilots complained they were getting too little oxygen. number two the daughter of the former democratic senator john edwards could testify at her father's corruption trial tomorrow so could john edwards himself and his mistress. and number one tonight president obama set to meet with top lawmakers aisle tomorrow to talk about economic proposa

fist-pumping record attempt in akron. this gentleman went around the campus doing exactly that.e's actually still at it. he started friday at 11:00 a.m. and heap e ends today at 3:00 a. his attempt is to go around and do this as many times as possible. of course, this is just like jersey shore style. he tried this awhile ago but it wasn't documented. now he's trying to set a world record. >> i'm sure he'll get lots of dates from his fist pumping record. >>> also what's cool it is actually national egg month. more importantly today is national dance like a chicken day. so we've asked for the help of nicole, our lovely prompt operator to demonstrate the >>> this morning on "world news now" -- legal challenge. john edwards' lawyers begin their defense strategy today in his conspiracy trial in north carolina. >> can his attorneys prove that edwards did not intentionally break campaign laws to cover up his affair? it's monday, may 14th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good monday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. we welcome yet another new face here to the

. >> reporter: at luigi's, his favorite pizza parlor in akron, ohio, the counter, chandelier and jukebox title character, funky winkerbean. >> funky is a strip that's unique, as i've allowed him to grow. i've seen a core of readers that have grown up with the strip themselves. >> reporter: as they've gotten older, his characters have battled issues from alcoholism to alzheimer's. he says he's even used the strip to face his own challenges. you were a finalist for a pulitzer because of lisa's story, the story battling cancer. that had threads of your own life story in it. >> yeah. i had initially done a story where lisa had cancer and then went into remission. then i was diagnosed with cancer. when i went back inside of me to draw the emotions, i found they were much darker. i think the power of those emotions deepened the work. >> reporter: do you ever hear from people who say, i open the comic section and i don't want to be depressed. i don't want to hear about teen pregnancy or dying from cancer. >> i get a lot of e-mails that say, i really love your strip, especially the early funny o

. >> there's all kinds of akron nichls. back to the original question, i don't think it's necessarily negative for the dry markets. they move toward self-sufficiency in the states has meant that the whole power generation portfolio is changing. we see perhaps this year, 2012, nine gig a watts of new wind. the natural gas fueled by the massive increase in shale gas supplies in the states. what this has meant that coal would have gone into quite dirty, old stations that are now shut for closure will potentially be avail snoobl we had neptune orient, one of the world's biggest container fleed. they had a huge loss. they seem as a pretty conservatively run shipping group. now they're posting losses. this must mean there's a lot of people hurting at the moment. >> there is a lot of hurting taking place under the drawer but i think in the next few months we'll see a lot more coming out in the public domain. i think some of the casualties we've seen so far, perhaps the tip of the iceberg. in the container sector, the lines have be

. ♪ oh what can i do, yeah >>> love these guys out of akron, ohio, the black peas, this is off the last. you're digging this john? >> i dig black peas and ohio. >> that's where my grandmother is. >> there you go. >> john avalon, cnn contributor, senior political columnist, "newsweek" and "the kayly beast" and your other half, we're outing you folks, they are married. >> better half. >> the better half. >> march great hoover. >> i don't know about that. >> cnn contributor, author, american individualism, former bush white house inner governmental affairs associate director. >> cute two-shot. >> first time on a cnn panel together on cnn. >> will cain columnist theblaze.com. good morning. >> this is the fun part you get to hold up your papers and tell me what you love. mr. avalon? >> i'm kind of into this fallout from the joe rickett story in the "the new york times" the fred davis famed republican ad-man pitching how they take out barack hussein obama by bringing back jeremiah wright. >> did they have in mind some radio -- >> larry elsner, people thought they were electing a metro sexual

. >> reminds me of my grandmother in akron, ohio.t. >> we have a lot of great gardening traditions in the country and the book highlights it so we are -- we're gardeners at heart. >> we have some questions from -- are you ready, mrs. obama. they're tough. >> i think so. >> theo, you have a question. what's your question to mrs. obama. get the mike. >> what's your favorite vegetable? >> my favorite vegetable. i have many. broccoli, i love arugula. i know you guys told me you planted some arugula in your garden. love arugula with a nice piece of steak. broccoli is big. string beans, green spinach. carrots. i love many, many. there are only a few things -- one thing we don't like are beats. that's probably the only -- we're a no-beat garden. we believe there's a beat gene. you either love beats or you hate them and neither of us have the beat gene. >> great beat salad. no? >> for all the chefs out there, i will eat beats but -- >> but you'd rather chloe, you have a question. >> why do you like to garden? >> you know, because first of al

. >> stephanie: joan in akron.sing. thank you. >> caller: i'm going to tell you something. i want to rename the republican party. i want them to be the austin rug party because they lie like rugs. [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> stephanie: she just high-fived herself. i can tell. >> stephanie: she's dancing around the living room saying booyah! >> she did the mic throw. >> stephanie: she did the gangster mic throw! [ ♪ circus ♪ ] >> just walked off stage. >> stephanie: region nis detroit. welcome, regis. >> caller: hey, stephanie. i do want to say a couple of things. one with harold ford and cory booker. harold ford has been hating on obama ever since he was not the prime candidate for new york. cory booker was just -- he was entitled to his own opinion but he was wrong in everything that he said. >> stephanie: yep. >> caller: at the same time, you guys are doing a phenomenal job. you have encouraged me -- i'm a student. i'm having my first morning glass of pinot grigio. >> stephanie: rock on. >> go, regis! >> caller: i would li

he walked around the university of akron with his fist pumping in the air.o the "guinness book of world records" for review. the craziest part of the whole story, he apparently super glued his hand shut to keep it in the fist position. >> is that true or did we make that up? >> our producer tells us that's true. that's one of the stranger ones i've ever seen. can you set a record on anything you feel like doing? >> sure. is there anything you want to do. >> i'll think about it for the next hour or so. >>> on "snl" joey biden stewing over the president's same-sex marriage announcement and the burning question about "time" magazine's breast-feeding cover. did you see it? >> i did see it. >> take a look. >> "time" magazine, this is the image you went with for mother's day? what's with the camouflage pants? there's not enough camouflage in the world to hide from the blow back this kid will experience. i understand you have to do what it takes to sell magazines and it's a good cover. if you wanted a great cover you would have photo shopped out the chair. i mean,

also buffalo, original den, utah, syracuse, new york, akron, ohio, and cincinnati, these are roundingthing is a job and you can't afford a house if you have a job. the one thing i've been saying about the housing recovery, this mending in the housing market we've been seeing all depends on the job market doing better and consistently doing better. you've heard me say people are starting to move again for retirement, to move for a new job, go to a different part of the country for whatever reason people are moving again and that's really, really important. we need the jobs market to really get healthy so we can sustain it. >> christine romans, thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> 26 minutes past the hour. radioactive tuna caught off the u.s. coast after a 6,000-mile migration from japan. the big question, is it safe to eat? we'll ask the man who made the discovery, coming up next. [ female announcer ] to get a professional cleansing system you could spend as much as $200. olay says challenge that with an instrument that cleanses as effectively as what's sold by skin professionals for a wh

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they're addicted to akron names, wolf for women's liberation fund and rat.oups who hate men and marriage and think all babies should be born out of test tubes. >> hating men? having babies in test tubes? this is actually not what the women's liberation movement was all about and contrary to popular believe it did not include bra burning. it did actually spawn from this 1 1968 event. a woman figuratively referred to bra burning as way to draw a parallel with vietnam protesters burning draft cards. people picked up on the bra burning and missed the vietnam. they did throw things into a lard garbage can and according to one of the protesters who organized it they had intended to burn them but since they were on the boardwalk, police officers wouldn't allow them to play with fire. that was then, this is now. what's next. joining me to talk about the challenges, emily carpenter from girls for gender equity.org, she's 17. leslie cardona who's president of her school's organization, young women creating challenge. she's 18. and julie zielinger, author of the book "

akron's history has been very strong in some areas, but there's also the target investment, which isurpose vehicle in which he earned options. and then, of course, borders, he bought the stock right before bankruptcy. jc penney, one of the biggest retail investments he' made. >> david, you 45d the great special on j. crew and the take away for me of your documentary was merchandise, high invenn foir. these are the things that you need. i don't see the right merchandise. i don't know if john son has an eye. it may be. he's asking a lot of 4his customers. here's what he had to say. >> it's a lot on the brand marketing and didn't focus enough on the price and value offering. now, it also takes time to educate the customer. kind of time is your friend when you change strategy because eventual eventually, people are going to get it. you know, melissa, we'll see. you pointed out many times the multiple on the stock. none the leless, remains very, y high. >> talk about the story unfolding the potential tern around. >> two weeks ago, ron johnson said he was 29% through. now it's 33%, maybe 3

a job in a goodyear factory and tweet, you know, i'm a white male and i'm a factory worker here in akron and i just don't know for whom to vote. and if i just did that, i would have friends until election day. then they would all turn their backs on me and that would be the end of it. so i'd like to start off by asking what we were just discussing in the greenroom actually, here we saw this big inflection point 60 years ago. the world changed with television. your world, the world in which you live and have to predict the unpredictable and deal with the unfair so many times. is the world going to change with, with the realization that we now have facebook, we now have twitter, we now have social media and if so, how is the world going to change? what is going to be, what is different and what's going to be different? so let's, chris, let me ask you to start. then we'll just go, okay? >> first of all, thanks for having us especially with this very august panel and john, thank you for the introduction the i will say sara and i worked together on the 2000 gore campaign. i think we could hav

it took me back the genesis for this text to akron ohio where we sat in a room full like this a room full of military veterans who had put their lives on the line, some of them injured to protect and preserve our freedoms. sure they are back on now and they've been unemployed for a year or two or three. guangya in the room who told a story that had me in tears she and his wife were having such a difficult time trying to make eight that after 25 or 27 or so years of marriage they had to split not because there was any trouble in paradise, there's no trouble in their love relationship but they couldn't come they didn't think they didn't come to a conclusion in their own relationship they didn't make it together that they had to split to try to make it and she's living animals all male shelter his living across town in an all female shelter they had to split poverty that they were enduring. we saw these kind of stories all across the country on an indian reservation and dr. west and i ask the native american brothers and sisters about the but the recession had done the replied what rece

cornelius is on the fund from akron, ohio -- what is the political outlook for the class of 2012?aller: good morning. i am very optimistic. i'm a student. i am 43 years old. i work full time and go to school full-time. i waited and looked for a job. i never went on unemployment. it depends how aggressive the bar. you have to be aggressive and the job market and stay positive. you cannot look down and say the economy is bad. the economy is doing fine. people are doing better than what they are saying. you have to stay positive. there are many jobs that americans are not qualified or they are giving up. host: you can join the conversation on our twitter page -- we are asking you about the future of the graduating class of 2012. the president addressed the air force academy and we will hear from him in a moment. the vice president was at west point yesterday and earlier this month, mitt romney had this to say to the class of 2012. [video clip] >> you and to a world with civilizations and economies that are far from equal. harvard university historian david landis delivered his lifesp