so without further ado, please welcome howard ruffner. [applause] howard: first of all, i have to say it is nice to see some familiar faces out here. lots of people from pasadena village and relatives. my daughter is here with my son-in-law, and his parents are here. people from near where i live. but most of all, i have to think my wife for being here. if she will just raise her hand. [applause] as most of you know, whenever you endeavor on a real, good project, your stress is the one who picks up the other stuff, and laura kept me organized and kept me going and made sure i did not lose too much of a focus on where i was going with this. so let me get started. the intention of my book is to let you know more about me at the beginning before i attended kent state, my introduction to photography. and then the rest of the story unrolled atwhen i kent state in march, 1969. i will give you a clips of the campus life i knew before may 4. then the rest of the book is about my photography and experience photographing events on campus from may 1

howard ruffner talks about the photos he took on may 4, 1970, when national guard troops shot and killed four students at kent state university in ohio during an anti-vietnam war protest. a student and photographer for the college newspaper at the time, one of his photos was used on the cover of "life" magazine. and he has published a book about his experience, "moments of truth." max: thank you all so much for coming out tonight. tonight, we are hosting the photographer howard ruffner who, during his college years at kent state university was a , photographer for the yearbook and newspaper. his book tonight "moments of truth

we are hosting photographer howard ruffner, who during his college years at kent university was a photographer for the yearbook as well as the newspaper. his book "moments of truth" is a collection of more than 150 of his photos surrounding the kent state massacre of the 1970's in which 4 students'lives were lost. (applause)

we are hosting photographer howard ruffner, who during his college years at kent university was a photographer for the yearbook as well as the newspaper. his book "moments of truth" is a collection of more than 150 of his photos surrounding the kent state massacre of the 1970's in which 4 students'lives were lost. (applause) (applause) (applause) >> first of all, i have to say, it's nice to see familiar faces out here. lots of people from pasadena village and relatives. my daughter is out here with my son-in-law and his parents are here. most of all, i have to thank my wife for being here. if she will just raise her hand. >> as most of you know, whenever you endeavor on a real good project, your spouse is the one who picks up the other stuff, and lark kept me organized, kept me going and made sure i did not lose too much focus of where i was going with this. so let me get started. the intention of my book is to let you know more about me in the beginning before i attended kent state, my introduction to photography, and the rest of the story starts with when i enrolled in kent state in march of