certified archivists and twice a member at the oral history training institute held annually at kenyon college. 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 o