- Jeffrey Miller
Jeffrey Glenn Miller (
March 28 ,1950 –May 4 ,1970 ) was a student atKent State University inKent, Ohio when he was shot and killed byOhio National Guard smen in theKent State shootings .At the time of his death, Miller had recently transferred to Kent State fromMichigan State University . While at Michigan State, Miller pledgedPhi Kappa Tau fraternity where his older brother had been a member.Of the four students killed at Kent State that day, Miller was standing closest to the Guardsmen. He was shot through the head when a single rifle bullet entered his open mouth and exited at the back of his head at the base of his posterior skull, killing him almost instantly. He was facing the Guardsmen while standing in an access road leading into the Prentice Hall parking lot at a distance of approximately 270 ft. [ [http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley. THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY;
Kent State University ] ]John Filo 's iconicPulitzer Prize -winning photo, the most famous picture from the event, features fourteen-year-old runawayMary Ann Vecchio kneeling over Miller's body.Three other students were killed in the shootings:
Allison Krause ,Sandra Scheuer , andWilliam Knox Schroeder . The shootings led to protests and a national student strike, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated inWashington, D.C. , against the war and protesting the killing of unarmed students on a college campus.Miller was buried in
Hartsdale, New York . A memorial has been erected atPlainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School , the school that replaced Miller's high school in Plainview,New York . Miller's mother had been a secretary to the principal of J.F. Kennedy H.S. in the 1960s. There is a Kent State Memorial Lecture Fund at MIT established in 1970 by one of Jeffrey Miller’s childhood friends.Notes
External links
* [http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs823b,0,7550916.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation Newsday: A Long Island Student Dies at Kent State]
* [http://www.peace.ca/mysondied.htm My Son Died 30 years Ago At Kent State] by Elaine Holstein, Miller's mother
* [http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy, By Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley]
* [http://theheretik.typepad.com/the_heretik/sign_of_peace/index.html The Heretik Remembers: The Boy From Diamond Drive]
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